IELTS Research Reports

Guoxing Yu, Pauline Rea-Dickins and Richard Kielyin particular, in terms of whether or not the participants tried to make interpretations, predictionsand comments by linking the graphic information with their domain knowledge about the graphs.The implications of these findings are discussed with reference to AWT1 task design, as wellas other language test tasks that use graphs as prompts, particularly for listening, speaking andwriting assessments.Authors biodataGuoxing YuDr Yu is Lecturer at the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol. He earned his PhD in2005 from Bristol; his dissertation was awarded the Jacqueline A. Ross TOEFL Dissertation Award byEducational Testing Service USA (2008). He was the Principal Investigator of this research project.He publishes in academic journals including Applied Linguistics, Assessing Writing, Assessment inEducation, Educational Research, Language Assessment Quarterly, and Language Testing.Address: Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, 35 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1JA, UK.Email: Guoxing.Yu@bristol.ac.ukPauline Rea-DickinsDr Rea-Dickins is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Graduate School of Education, University ofBristol. She has published widely in areas of language testing and assessment, particularly classroombasedassessment and language programme evaluation. She is Director of a major ESRC/DfIDresearch project (2007-2010, RES-167-25-0263): Student Performance in National Examination: thedynamics of language (SPINE; www/bristol.ac.uk/spine), which is a collaboration between Bristol andthe State University of Zanzibar.Address: Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, 35 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1JA, UK.Email: P.Rea-Dickins@bristol.ac.ukRichard KielyDr Kiely is Reader of Applied Linguistics at the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol.His research interests include language programme evaluation, language teaching and teacherdevelopment, and language learning explored from language socialisation and identity perspectives.Address: Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, 35 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1JA, UK.Email: R.Kiely@bristol.ac.uk374 www.ielts.org