Autor: Liz Hamp-Lyons

Liz Hamp-Lyons began her career as a teacher of English for Academic Purposes, before researching the writing test component of ELTS (the precursor to the IELTS) for her Ph D at the University of Edinburgh. Much of her Ph D was published, with other chapters, in Assessing Second Language Writing in Academic Contexts (1991). She worked at the Universities of Michigan and Colorado before becoming Chair Professor and Department Head at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. For many years she edited the journal Assessing Writing (Elsevier), and founded the Journal of English for Academic Purposes in 2002. She has consulted on large scale as well as more local writing assessments.