Glenn Fulcher is the Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Assessment in the English Department at the University of Leicester, UK. He got his PhD in Applied Linguistics and Language Testing from Lancaster University (1993) and his MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham (1987). Professor Fulcher has been the editor of Sage's Language Testing (2006-2015) and an influ...

Language testing and assessment are diverse areas which continue to experience rapid development as fields of study. The same growth is also true when we consider the range methods assessing student abilities that have at our disposal. Indeed, a glance ‘flagship’ journals such Testing (2022) Assessment Quarterly will confirm, scope academic scholarship now enormous, many ways in testers assesso...

*Correspondence: John C. Mauro, SP-FR-05, Corning, NY 14831, USA e-mail: [email protected] To a glass scientist, the name “Fulcher” conjures images of viscosity vs. temperature diagrams for glass-forming liquids. Indeed, Gordon Fulcher’s seminal 1925 publication, in which he proposed his three-parameter model of viscosity, is one of the most significant and influential papers ever published in...

A brief survey of a paper by Peter Steffen, et al. Introduction G.K. Chesterton, an English author and journalist from the turn of the century, once stated he desired to write a story about a man setting sail from England in search of a new and foreign land. Eventually, when the man reached the island of his destination, he found it to be the most extraordinary and fascinating place. Unbeknowns...

Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio Robert Anderson Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio Dulcinea Avouris Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Richard Becker University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio James Churnside NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, Colorado Michael Cline University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio James Demers Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio George Leshkevich NOAA Great Lakes ...

Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio Robert Anderson Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio Dulcinea Avouris Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Richard Becker University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio James Churnside NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, Colorado Michael Cline University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio James Demers Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio George Leshkevich NOAA Great Lakes ...

The editor’s notes in our Journal have been so far a site for the clarification of the Journal’s policy and the task still continues. With an inclination towards solving our real world problems in language teaching (and literary studies, which I will discuss in the next issue of the Journal), we would like to take that the introduction of the concept of “life-world” to Social Sciences can be a ...