YunDeok Choi (2018) is a lecturer in the Department of English Education at the International Graduate School of English, South Korea, where she teaches Research Methods. YunDeok holds an MA in Second Language Studies from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and an MS in Linguistic from Georgetown University. Her research interests include ESL/EFL writing and speaking assessment, test development and validation, and L2 acquisition.
Major Professor: Carol Chapelle
Dissertation title: Graphic-Prompt Tasks for Assessment of Academic English Writing Ability: An Argument-Based Approach to Investigating Validity