Dr Angeliki Salamoura

Dr Angeliki Salamoura

Principal Research Manager

Angeliki has over 20 years of experience in the field of English education, as a teacher, researcher, research manager and assessment and learning specialist. As a Principal Research Manager at Cambridge Assessment English, she leads on research related to Learning Oriented Assessment (LOA), language learning, impact and the CEFR. Angeliki also has overall responsibility for education reform projects within the Research and Thought Leadership division, ranging from CEFR familiarisation and benchmarking to test and programme evaluation. In this context, she has led impact assessment projects in the K-12 and vocational sectors in Europe, Asia and South America.

In the past, Angeliki has also led research within English Profile, an interdisciplinary programme, which aims to exemplify the CEFR for English. Prior to joining Cambridge Assessment English, Angeliki held a research position at the Department of Experimental Psychology at Cambridge University, conducting research on language processing and cognition. As an English language teacher in her native Greece, she gained experience with learners across the age range from early primary school to tertiary education. She regularly presents at conferences and delivers training worldwide in her areas of expertise, and has a strong publication record. Angeliki holds a PhD and an MPhil in English and Applied Linguistics from the University of Cambridge.

Key publications and conference presentations

Guetterman, T C and Salamoura, A (2016) Enhancing test validation through rigorous mixed methods components, in Moeller, A J, Creswell, J W and Saville, N (Eds) Second Language Assessment and Mixed Methods Research, Studies in Language Testing volume 43, Cambridge: UCLES/Cambridge University Press, 153-176.

Salamoura, A and Unsworth, S (2016) Learning Oriented Assessment: Making the connections between learning, assessment and technology, paper presented at the ALTE 6th International Conference, Bologna, Italy, May 2016.

Barker, F, Salamoura, A and Saville, N (2015) Learner corpora and language testing, in Granger, S, Gilquin, G and Meunier, F (Eds) The Cambridge Handbook of Learner Corpus Research, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 511-534.

Galaczi, E and Salamoura, A (2015) Technology and Learning Oriented Assessment: Helping teachers and learners, paper presented at the IATEFL 49th Annual Conference and Exhibition, Manchester, UK, April 2015.

Salamoura, A, Guetterman, T C and Docherty, C (2015) Enhancing test validation through rigorous mixed methods design features, paper presented at the 37th Language Testing Research Colloquium, Toronto, Canada, March 2015.

Salamoura, A, Littlemore, J, Murakami, A and Jaworska, S (2015) Directions in English Profile research, in Harrison, J and Barker, F (Eds) English Profile in Practice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 106-119.

Salamoura, A and Unsworth, S (2015) Learning Oriented Assessment: Putting learning, teaching and assessment together, Modern English Teacher 24 (3), 2-6.

Barker, F and Salamoura, A (2014) Learning Oriented Assessment (LOA): Integrating assessment into classroom practice to promote student learning, paper presented at Marketing English in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, March 2014.

Guetterman, T C and Salamoura, A (2014) Designing Mixed Methods Studies in Language Assessment, paper presented at the MMIRA Inaugural Conference 2014 (Mixed Methods International Research Association), Boston, USA, June 2014.

Jones, N and Salamoura, A (2014) CEFR as a framework for combining classroom and external assessment data, paper presented at the EALTA 2014, Coventry, UK, May 2014.

Salamoura, A and ffrench, A (2014) An investigation into the use of standardised assessment for employability purposes in India, paper presented at the ALTE 5th International Conference, Paris, France, April 2014.

Salamoura, A, ffrench, A and Emery, J (2014) Enhancing employment opportunities through English: An investigation into the impact of the SCOPE programme in India, Research Notes 58, 27-39.

Salamoura, A, Khalifa, H and Docherty, C (2014) Investigating the impact of language tests in their educational context, paper presented at the IAEA 2014 (International Association of Educational Assessment), Singapore, May 2014.

Salamoura, A, Khalifa, H and Docherty, C (2014) Investigating the impact of language tests in their educational context, in Proceedings of the IAEA 2014 (International Association of Educational Assessment) Conference, Singapore, May 2014.

Saville, N and Salamoura, A (2014) Learning Oriented Assessment: A systemic view from an examination provider, paper presented at the Roundtable on Learning-Oriented Assessment in Language Classrooms and Large-Scale Assessment Contexts, New York, USA, October 2014.

Alexopoulou, T, Yannakoudakis, H and Salamoura, A (2013) Classifying intermediate learner English: A data-driven approach to learner corpora, in Granger, S, Gilquin, G and Meunier, F (Eds) Twenty Years of Learner Corpus Research: Looking Back, Moving Ahead, Louvain: Presses universitaires de Louvain.

Jaworska, S, Salamoura, A and Barker, F (2013) The development of formulaic repertoires in L2 English at three CEFR levels: a corpus-driven and cross-linguistic comparison, paper presented at Learner Corpus Research 2013, Bergen, Norway, September 2013.

Jaworska, S, Salamoura, A and Barker, F (2013) First of all, I have to say that... - The development of formulaic repertoires in L2 English at B2 and C1 levels: a corpus-driven and cross-linguistic comparison, in Archibald, A N (Ed) Multilingual Theory and Practice in Applied Linguistics, Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, 6-8 September 2012, 85-90, available online: https://baal.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/proceedings_2012.pdf

Salamoura, A (2013) Assessing grammar and meaning: Insights from English profile, paper presented at IATEFL TEASIG 2013, Liverpool, UK, April 2013.

Salamoura, A, Docherty, C, Hamilton, M and Jones, N (2013) The use of external standardised assessment in a school context for motivational and accountability purposes, paper presented at the 35th Language Testing Research Colloquium, Seoul, South Korea, July 2013.

Salamoura, A and Harrison, G (2013) Standards and examinations, paper presented at the 6th Seminar of English Language Teacher Training in Chile, Santiago, Chile, December 2013.

Ashton, K, Salamoura, A and Diaz, E (2012) The BEDA impact project: A preliminary investigation of a bilingual programme in Spain, Research Notes 50, 34-42.

Jaworska, S, Salamoura, A and Barker, F (2012) The role of L1 influence on the development of formulaic repertoires in L2 English at CEFR levels B2 and C1: a corpus-driven and cross-linguistic comparison, paper presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, September 2012.

Milanovic, M, Saville, N, Salamoura, A and Barker, F (2012) Cambridge English, paper presented at the Cambridge Language Sciences Initiative launch event, Cambridge, UK, May 2012.

Salamoura, A (2012) English Profile: The CEFR for English, paper presented at the English Profile Network Seminar, Cologne, Germany, October 2012.

Salamoura, A, Docherty, C and Hamilton, M (2012) Using external language assessment in a primary and secondary school context: The learners’ perspective, paper presented at the Language Testing Forum 2012, Bristol, UK, November 2012.

Salamoura, A, Hamilton, M and Octor, V (2012) An initial investigation of the introduction of Cambridge English examinations in Mission laïque française schools, Research Notes 50, 24-33.

Salamoura, A and Lim, G (2012) Validating a Writing Assessment Scale: Insights from SLA, Corpora, and Computational Linguistics, paper presented at the 34th Language Testing Research Colloquium, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, April 2012.

Khalifa, H and Salamoura, A (2011) Criterion-related validity, in Taylor, L (Ed) Examining Speaking: Research and Practice in Assessing Second Language Speaking, Studies in Language Testing volume 30, Cambridge: UCLES/Cambridge University Press, 259-292.

Salamoura, A (2011) Lexico-grammatical criterial features across the CEFR levels for English, paper presented at the Beijing Cambridge Day, Beijing, China, August 2011.

Salamoura, A (2011) Using the Cambridge Learner Corpus for developing Reference Learner Descriptions: Implications for assessment, paper presented at the 16th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Beijing, China, August 2011.

Salamoura, A (2011) Grammar and Functions across the CEFR levels, paper presented at the English Profile Network Seminar, Brno, Czech Republic, October 2011.

Salamoura, A and Capel, A (2011) Building the English Vocabulary Profile: Implications for learning, teaching and assessment, paper presented at the ALTE 4th International Conference, Krakow, Poland, July 2011.

Salamoura, A and Khalifa, H (2011) Investigating the criterion-related validity of speaking tests, paper presented at the 33rd Language Testing Research Colloquium, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, June 2011.

Salamoura, A and Lim, G (2011) Data driven analyses of learner corpora: Describing CEFR levels and defining assessment criteria, paper presented at the Special Colloquium: Interfaces between Second Language Acquisition and Language Assessment: The Next Generation, in SLRF 2011, Ames, Iowa, USA, October 2011.

Salamoura, A and Saville, N (2011) Symposium: Developing Reference Level Descriptions and implications for assessment, paper presented at the 16th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Beijing, China, August 2011.

Salamoura, A and Saville, N (2011) The English Profile Programme: Transposing the CEFR into a learning, teaching and assessment context, paper presented at the CercleS seminar: Ten Years of the CEFR and Ten Years of the ELP, Groningen, The Netherlands, November 2011.

Filipovic, L and Salamoura, A (2010) Criterial features in Reference Level Descriptions (RLDs): Implication for Assessment, paper presented at the ALTE 38th Meeting and Conference, Rome, Italy, May 2010.

Harvey, A, Balch, A and Salamoura, A (2010) The adoption of international certification in the French state school sector, Research Notes 40, 7-9.

Khalifa, H, ffrench, A and Salamoura, A (2010) Maintaining alignment to the CEFR: the FCE case study, in Martyniuk, W (Ed) Aligning tests with the CEFR: Reflections on using the Council of Europe’s draft Manual, Studies in Language Testing volume 33, Cambridge: UCLES/Cambridge University Press, 80-101.

Salamoura, A (2010) The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) in practice, paper presented at the English for Schools Conference 2010, Cambridge, UK, May 2010.

Salamoura, A (2010) CEFR Familiarization: An introduction to the scale and how to use it to evaluate speaking proficiency, paper presented at the ACTFL CEFR Alignment Conference 2010, Leipzig, Germany, June 2010.

Salamoura, A (2010) Using English Profile findings to assess learner English, paper presented at the English Profile Network Seminar, Madrid, Spain, October 2010.

Salamoura, A (2010) Criterial features and implications for assessment, paper presented at the English Profile Network Seminar, Madrid, Spain, November 2010.

Salamoura, A (2010) Exemplifying the CEFR: Findings from the English Profile Programme, paper presented at the TESOL-Italy 35th National Convention, Rome, Italy, November 2010.

Salamoura, A (2010) Rating learners’ work using the CEFR and English Profile, paper presented at the English Profile Workshop, Belgrade, Kragujevac and Novi Pazar, Serbia, November 2010.

Salamoura, A and Galaczi, E (2010) Using learner corpora to illustrate the CEFR levels: Findings from the English Profile Programme, paper presented at the 9th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference, Brno, Czech Republic, June 2010.

Salamoura, A and Saville, N (2010) Exemplifying the CEFR: Criterial features of written learner English from the English Profile Programme, in Bartning, I, Maisa, M and Vedder, I (Eds) Communicative proficiency and linguistic development: Intersections between SLA and language testing research, Eurosla Monographs Series 1, 101-132, available online at: http://eurosla.org/monographs/EM01/101-132Salamoura_Saville.pdf

Saville, N and Salamoura, A (2010) Reference level descriptions for national and regional languages: The English Profile Programme, paper presented at the 32nd Language Testing Research Colloquium, Cambridge, UK, April 2010.

Papp, S and Salamoura, A (2009) An exploratory study into linking young learners’ examinations to the CEFR, Research Notes 37, 15-22.

Salamoura, A (2009) The role of quantitative and qualitative methods in the linking of English Profile data to the CEFR, paper presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, Newcastle, UK, September 2009.

Salamoura, A and Saville, N (2009) Identifying “criterial features” of English across CEFR levels: Implications for diagnostic assessment, paper presented at the Language Testing Forum 2009, Luton, UK, November 2009.

Salamoura, A and Saville, N (2009) Criterial features of English across the CEFR levels: Evidence from the English Profile Programme, Research Notes 37, 34-40.

Carlsen, C and Salamoura, A (2008) Linking learner corpora to the CEFR: Challenges and advantages, paper presented at the ALTE 36th Meeting and Conference, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, April 2008.

Salamoura, A (2008) Aligning English Profile research data to the Common European Framework of Reference, paper presented at the 3rd English Profile Network Seminar, Cambridge, UK, February 2008.

Salamoura, A (2008) Aligning English Profile research data to the CEFR, Research Notes 33, 5-7.

Salamoura, A and Khalifa-Louchihi, H (2008) Linking Examinations to the CEFR: The Cambridge ESOL FCE case study, paper presented at the ALTE 3rd International Conference, Cambridge, UK, April 2008.

Khalifa-Louchihi, H, Salamoura, A, and ffrench, A (2007) Reflections on using the Draft Manual: The Cambridge ESOL FCE case study, paper presented at the Council of Europe Seminar “Reflections on the use of the Draft Manual for Relating Language Examinations to the CEFR 2004-2007: Insights from Case Studies, Pilots and other projects,” Cambridge, UK, December 2007.

Salamoura, A (2007) Are L1 and L2 representations of grammatical gender shared or distinct?, paper presented at the 7th International Conference of Greek Linguistics, York, UK, September 2007.

Salamoura, A (2007) Grammatical gender in the bilingual lexicon: A psycholinguistic approach, in Kecskes, I and Albertazzi, L (Eds) Cognitive Aspects of Bilingualism, Dordrecht: Springer Verlag, 99-151.

Salamoura, A and Alexopoulou, D (2007) Extending available (English Profile) data and building new corpora, paper presented at the 1st English Profile Network Seminar, Cambridge, UK, July 2007.

Salamoura, A and Williams, J N (2007) Processing verb argument structure across languages: Evidence for shared representations in the bilingual mental lexicon, Applied Psycholinguistics 28, 627-660.

Salamoura, A and Williams, J N (2007) The representation of grammatical gender in the bilingual lexicon: Evidence from Greek and German, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 10, 257-275.

Salamoura, A and Williams, J N (2006) Lexical activation of cross-language syntactic priming, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 9, 299-307.

Salamoura, A (2005) The representation of grammatical gender in the bilingual mental lexicon: The case of cognate and noncognate nouns, in Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, 15-17 April 2005.

Salamoura, A (2005) The representation of grammatical gender in the bilingual lexicon: Evidence from Greek and German, paper presented at the Rovereto Workshop on Bilingualism: Functional & Neural Perspectives, Rovereto, Italy, October 2005.

Salamoura, A (2003) Structural priming in Greek and English: On the representation of syntactic information in the bilingual mental lexicon, in Katsimali, G, Kalokairinos, A, Anagnostopoulou, E and Kappa, I (Eds) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Rethymno: Linguistics Laboratory, 1-12.

Salamoura, A and Williams, J N (1999) Backward word translation: Lexical vs. conceptual mediation or ‘concept activation’ vs. ‘word retrieval’? RCEAL Working Papers in English and Applied Linguistics 6, 31-56.