Elvis Wagner, Ed.D.

Elvis Wagner, Ed.D.
Associate Professor of TESOL
Dept. of Teaching & Learning

447 Ritter Hall
1301 Cecil B. Moore Avenue
Ritter Hall, College of Education
Philadelphia, PA 19122

phone: (215) 204-5821
fax: (215) 204-1414
elvis.wagner@temple.edu

Education

  • Ed.D. Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University
  • Ed.M. Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University
  • M.A. TESOL, Teachers College, Columbia University
  • M.A. English, University of Nebraska
  • B.A. English, Spanish, History, Texas Christian University

Areas of Professional Interest

  • Second Language Assessment
  • Teaching and Testing of Second Language Oral Proficiency
  • Oral Proficiency of International Teaching Assistants and Teaching Effectiveness
  • Second and Foreign Language Teaching Methodology

Recent Scholarship

Wagner, E. (in press-2013). Assessing listening. In A. Kunan (Ed), Companion to language assessment. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

Wagner, E. (2013). An investigation of how the channel of input and access to test questions affect L2 listening test performance. Language Assessment Quarterly, 10. 178-195.

Toth, P., Wagner, E., and Moranski, K. (2013). “Co-constructing” explicit L2 knowledge among high school Spanish learners during inductive grammar instruction. Applied Linguistics, 34, 279-303.

Wagner, E. (2013). Surveys. In C. Chapelle (Ed.), The encyclopedia of applied linguistics. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

Wagner, E., & Toth, P. (2013). High school Spanish learners’ interaction during inductive grammar instruction. In K. McDonough and A. Mackey (Eds.), Interaction in diverse educational settings (pp. 89-108). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Wagner, E. (2010). How does the use of video texts affect ESL listening test-taker performance? Language Testing, 27, 493-510.

Wagner, E. (2010). Test-takers’ interaction with an L2 video listening test. System, 38, 280-291.

Wagner, E. (2010). Survey research in applied linguistics. In B. Paltrdige & A. Phakiti (Eds.), Continuum Companion to Second Language Research Methods (pp. 22-38). London: Continuum.

Wagner, E. (2009). [Review of the book English Learners Left Behind: Standardized Testing as Language Policy]. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 12, 721-725.

Wagner, E. (2008). Video listening tests: What are they measuring? Language Assessment Quarterly, 5, 218-243. (Winner of the 2008 ILTA Best Article in Language Testing award)

Wagner, E. (2007). Are they watching? An investigation of test-taker viewing behavior during an L2 video listening test. Language Learning and Technology. http://llt.msu.edu/vol11num1/pdf/wagner.pdf

Wagner, E. (2007). [Review of the book The Psychology of the Language Learner: Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition]. Language Teaching Research, 11, 506-509.

Wagner, E. (2004). A construct validation study of the extended listening sections of the ECPE and MELAB. Spaan Fellow Working Papers in Second or Foreign Language Assessment. Volume 2. English Language Institute, University of Michigan.

Wagner, E. (2002). Video listening tests: A pilot study. Teachers College, Columbia University Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics, 2(1).  http://www.tc.edu/tesolalwebjournal/wagner.pdf