Antony John Kunnan (Ph.D., UCLA)
Professor and Division Chair
Office King Hall A2044
Phone: (323) 343-4344
E-mail: akunnan@calstatela.edu
Antony John Kunnan primarily teaches classes in language testing, language planning and policy and ethics and educational research. He is the author of Test Taker Characteristics and Test Performance: A Structural Modeling Approach (Cambridge, 1995), the editor of Validation in Language Assessment (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998) and editor of Fairness and Validation in Language Assessment (Cambridge, 1999). He has published journal articles in the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Language Testing and the Journal of English as a Foreign Language, test reviews in the Buros' Mental Measurements Yearbook, and book chapters in well-known collections. Prior to his present position, he was postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a teacher-trainer faculty member at the Regional Institute of English, Bangalore, and an English teacher at St. Germain High School in Bangalore. He has also taught seminars in language assessment at the University of California, Los Angeles and at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Every year for the last ten years, he has been one of co-organizers of the Southern California Association of Language Researchers Conference held at CSULA, CSUF or UCLA. This conference is primarily for student papers and posters. He was also the President of the International Language Testing Association in 2004 and he is currently the editor of Language Assessment Quarterly. Expressions of interest in the area of language assessment are welcome particularly for publication consideration and from thesis students. .