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Assessment and Evaluation Language Resource Center
1421 37th St. NW
Georgetown University
Poulton Hall #227
Washington, DC 20057
United States
People
Director
Dr. Margaret E. Malone
Director (2016- )
Georgetown University
Margaret E. Malone (Ph.D., Georgetown University) is Director of the AELRC and Research Professor at Georgetown. She is also Director of the Center for Assessment, Research and Development at ACTFL. She has more than two decades of experience in language test development and teacher training through both online and face-to-face methods, data collection and survey research, and program evaluation. Her current research focuses on language assessment literacy, oral proficiency assessment and the relative difficulty of learning different languages.
Staff
Victoria Thompson
Business Manager, AELRC
Francesca Di Silvio
Senior Project Manager, Center for Applied Linguistics
Francesca has worked with the AELRC since 2019 and with Language Resource Centers from 2009-2014. She holds an M.A. in Linguistics from Georgetown University and also studied with the Faculty of Language and Linguistics as an undergrad. As a Senior Project Manager at the Center for Applied Linguistics, Francesca leads projects to develop language proficiency assessments for English and world language learners, manages research on world language instruction, and delivers professional development to language educators.
Anne Donovan
Senior Consultant, AELRC
Anne has worked with the AELRC since its inception in 2014, and with the Language Resource Centers since 2008. An alumna of the Georgetown Department of Linguistics, her work at CAL and the AELRC has primarily focused on language assessment, less commonly taught languages, study abroad, and professional development for language teachers.
Dr. Leah Graham
Associate Director, AELRC (2018- )
Associate Director of Assessment, Research, and Development, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Dr. Meg Montee
Associate Director, AELRC (2018- )
Director, Performance-Based Language Assessment, Center for Applied Linguistics
Meg holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Georgia State University and a Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language from Georgetown. As a Director of Performance-Based Language Assessment at CAL, she leads the research, development, and scoring of large-scale speaking assessments, specializing in the development of performance-based language assessments. During the 2014-18 funding cycle, she served as the acting assistant director for the AELRC, leading all of CAL’s activities. She frequently presents at testing and applied linguistics conferences and works extensively with educators, providing professional development and technical assistance about language assessment. Dr. Montee supports Dr. Malone in the day-to-day management of the AELRC and will lead the coordination of all outreach and professional development efforts.
Dr. Nic Subtirelu
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University
Dr. Nic Subtirelu (Ph.D., Georgia State University), an assistant professor of linguistics at Georgetown, heads up the student learning outcomes assessment and test development projects related to the Seal of Biliteracy. Dr. Subtirelu teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on second language acquisition, language teaching methods, and language policy, and his research explores the politics of language education, considering in particular how well language education serves groups marginalized along lines of race and socioeconomic status. His most recent research explores whether initiatives such as the Seal of Biliteracy and dual language immersion benefit students classified as English language learners, students of color, and students from low-income households. Dr. Subtirelu has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and other venues, and he is co-editor of a forthcoming book on race in dual language immersion. As part of the AELRC, Dr. Subtirelu conducts research on the influences of the Seal of Biliteracy on high school students, teachers, and administrators. He also conducts research to recommend new languages for the Seal, based on census data, community language school enrollment, and demand from the field. With Dr. Malone, he works on efforts to investigate the articulation of the Seal from high school to university.
Student Researchers
Melissa Cheston
Research Associate
Georgetown University
Amy Kim
Graduate Student Research Assistant
Past Research Affiliate, Center for Applied Linguistics
Vashti Lee
Research Associate
Georgetown University
Rachel Myers
Research Associate
Georgetown University
Past Staff
The AELRC is fortunate to have worked with talented staff members and student researchers on a regular basis, and we keep them in the AELRC family even when they have moved on to new work!
Margaret Anne Rowe
Research Associate; Center for Applied Linguistics
National Association of Independent Schools
Dr. Young-A Son
Graduate Student Research Assistant
Research Associate, Center for Applied Linguistics
Advisory Board
Dr. Sara Cushing
Senior Faculty Associate for Assessment of Student Learning Assessment and Accreditation, Office of Institutional Effectiveness Professor of Applied Linguistics
Dr. Sharon Fechter
Associate editor, Hispania
Dean of Humanities
Professor of Spanish
Founding Directors
Dr. John Norris
John Norris was the founding Principal Investigator and Director of the AELRC at its inception in 2014. He is now a Principal Research Scientist at the Educational Testing Service. His primary research interests include educational uses of language assessment, program evaluation, task-based language teaching, and research synthesis.
Dr. John McE. Davis
John McE. Davis was one of the founding members of the AELRC at its inception in 2014. He is a Research Scientist in the English Language Learning and Assessment Center at the Educational Testing Service. His research interests are in task-based language teaching, teacher training, language assessment, and program evaluation.
Founding Advisory Board, 2014-2018
Dr. Kimi Kondo-Brown
Associate Dean, College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature
Professor of Japanese Language & Linguistics
