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	ASSESSING WRITING An International Journal See also Elsevier Linguistics programme home ISSN: 1075-2935 Editors Biography L. Hamp-Lyons, University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Education, Pokfulam, Hong Kong Prof. Liz Hamp-Lyons has been an ELT educator and applied linguist for more than 25 years, working in England, Scotland, Greece, Iran, Malaysia, the USA (Illinois, Michigan and Colorado), and in Hong Kong, where she was Chair Professor and Head of English 1996-2000 and Chair Professor/Director of the Asian Centre for Language Assessment Research (ACLAR) 1999-2003. She currently holds positions as Honorary Professor of Education at the University of Hong Kong, Special Professor in the School of English Studies at the University of Nottingham, and Guest Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University. In 2003-2004 she was Director of the Language Testing Research Centre of the University of Melbourne, where she remains an Honorary Professor. Liz Hamp-Lyons is the Editor of Assessing Writing. Her interests include: English language test development and validation; test developer and rater training; ELT teacher professional development, especially in teacher-led assessment and in local and large-scale testing. In 1991 she published the main parts of her PhD, together with key papers by colleagues, as the edited book Assessing Second Language Writing in Academic Contexts (Ablex); in 2000 she and Bill Condon published Assessing the Portfolio: Theory, Practice and Research(Hampton Press). Her current research and development projects focus on school-based assessment at secondary school level in Hong Kong, and on very-large scale test reform in China.	Editorial board Biographies of other editors : "L. Hamp-Lyons