Dávid Gergely

Gergely Dávid graduated from Eötvös Loránd University in 1984. He obtained an MEd. in Teacher Training in English language Teaching at the University of Exeter in 1996, and a PhD in testing and evaluation at the University of Glamorgan in 2000. He is an English language teacher, teacher trainer and specialist in language testing at the Centre for English Teacher Training (now: Department of English Language Pedagogy), where he has worked since 1991. The areas of his experience and expertise are as follows: quality assurance of language tests and validation, methods and techniques of testing oral communicative competence and language competence in general, discourse analysis and IRT applications in language testing, statistical analysis and standard setting. A recent addition to his field of interests is validating language tests according to the Council of Europe Framework of Reference.