Grant Funded Projects

Evaluating argument structure construction-based indices for construct validity in assessing L2 grammatical proficiency (2024-)

• PI: Hakyung Sung & Supervisor: Kristopher Kyle (and ETS mentors)
• Harold Gulliksen Psychometric Research Fellowship by ETS

Towards an automatic assessment of rhetorical functions in academic English writing (2022-2023)

• PI: Masaki Eguchi & Supervisor: Kristopher Kyle
• The 2022 Duolingo English Test Doctoral Dissertation Award sponsored by Duolingo

Automatic assessment of stance-taking in English academic writing: A systemic functional perspective (2022-2023)

• PI: Masaki Eguchi & Supervisor: Kristopher Kyle
• The TIRF Doctoral Dissertation Grant 2022 sponsored by the International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF)

Automatic analysis of stance-taking in academic writing: A systemic functional perspective (2022-2023)

• PI: Masaki Eguchi & Supervisor: Kristopher Kyle
• The NFMLTA-MLJ Doctoral Dissertation Writing Support Grant 2022 sponsored by the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations (NFMLTA)

The development of lexico-grammatical complexity in two task types: A year-long study (2020-2021)

• PI: Masaki Eguchi & Co-PI: Kristopher Kyle
• Spaan Research Grant sponsored by Michigan Language Assessment

Evaluating NLP for L2 Research: A gold standard part of speech tagged and dependency parsed corpus of L2 speaking (2019-2020)

• PI: Kristopher Kyle
• Language Learning Early Career Grant

A linguistic analysis of the communication demands in typical technology-mediated learning environments (2018-2020)

• PI: Kristopher Kyle & Co-PIs: Nicole Ziegler, Geoffrey LaFlair
• Grant sponsored by TOEFL Committee of Examiners