Bio
Ananda Senel (née Muhammad) is a PhD candidate in the Applied Linguistics and Technology program. She began her PhD after earning an MA in TESL/Applied Linguistics from Iowa State University as a Fulbright Scholar from Indonesia. Before her graduate studies, she was a lecturer at the Department of English, Universitas Hasanuddin and Department of English Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Makassar, Indonesia. As a PhD student specializing in language assessment, she interned at Michigan Language Assessment and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Currently, she resides in the UK and works for Oxford University Press as a Senior Assessment Research and Analysis Manager in their ELT Assessment division. Her research interests include L2 pragmatics teaching and assessment, computer-assisted language testing, integrated skills tasks, and language assessment literacy. She has presented her work at multiple conferences including the Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC), Language Assessment Research Conference (LARC), and the Midwest Association of Language Testers (MwALT). Her dissertation project on developing an interaction-oriented diagnostic assessment of L2 pragmatic competence has received multiple grants, including the English Department Graduate Student Research Grant from Iowa State University, British Council Assessment Research Award, the TOEFL Small Grants for Doctoral Research in Second or Foreign Language Assessment, and The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF) Doctoral Dissertation Grant.