Rate My Professor Priyanvada Abeywickrama

Abeywickrama's research interests encompass language assessment combined with second language literacy and oral skills, with a secondary focus on discourse analysis, specifically codeswitching. She presents regularly at major conferences, including the annual International TESOL convention, the American Association for Applied Linguistics, and the Language Testing Research Colloquium. Key publications include her co-authorship with H. Douglas Brown of Language Assessment: Principles and Classroom Practices, 3rd edition (Pearson, 2018), as well as earlier editions in 2010 and 2004. Other notable works are "Why Not Non-native Varieties of English as Listening Comprehension Test Input?" (RELC Journal, 2013), "Purposes of Listening Assessment" (The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching, 2018), and "TESOL Programs in Flux" (2023). In her coordinator roles, she oversees the TESOL program, training educators in linguistics-related fields at San Francisco State University.