John Pill

Professional Background

• Senior Lecturer and Senior Scientist (Substitute), Department of Subject-Specific Education, University of Innsbruck | since September 2026
• Researcher at the Language Testing Research Group Innsbruck, Department of Subject-Specific Education, University of Innsbruck | since September 2026

Previous positions

• Lecturer in Language Testing, Lancaster University, UK

• Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

• Research Fellow, Language Testing Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia

Education

• PhD, University of Melbourne
• MA (Applied Linguistics), Hong Kong University
• RSA Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults

Research Interests

• Testing language for specific purposes, with particular focus on healthcare and academic settings 
• Scope and definition of language constructs in different contexts
• Performance assessment
• Language assessment literacy
• Test users' perspectives

Teaching

John‘s background is in teaching English as a foreign language and language teacher training.

University of Innsbruck

• Action-Oriented Foreign Language Teaching and Assessment
• Selected Topics in Foreign Language Education: Using technology in English language teaching and assessment

Administration

Committees

• TOEFL Committee of Examiners member
• EALTA Membership Committee member
• ILTA Bylaws Committee member

Reviewing

• Language Assessment Quarterly - Member of Editorial Advisory Board

• Studies in Language Assessment - Member of Editorial Board

Memberships

• ILTA (International Language Testing Association)
• EALTA (European Association for Language Testing and Assessment)
• UKALTA (UK Association for Language Testing and Assessment)
• BAAL (British Association of Applied Linguistics)
• BAAL (British Association of Applied Linguistics) Testing, Evaluation and Assessment Special Interest Group
• ÖGSD (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Sprachdidaktik/Austrian Society for Language Teaching)