Dr. Mikako Nishikawa is a Jr. Associate Professor, The Engineering Education Research Center, Graduate School of Engineering at Kyoto University.
Dr. Nishikawa’s primary research interest is shaped by her desire to understand the test-takers’ cognitive processes of writing. She completed her doctoral degree in 2018 from the University of Bristol under the supervision of Dr. Guoxing Yu and Dr. Liz Washrbook. Her dissertation on the eye-tracking study, entitled “Test-takers’ Cognitive Processes While Synthesizing Multiple Texts and Grants” received multiple awards, including The British Council Assessment Research Awards (2015), The Best Poster Prize from the LanguageTesting Forum (2015), the Doctoral Dissertation Grant by The International Foundation for English Language Education (2016), The JACET Award (2016) of the Excellent Presentation as a Young Scholar. Her latest publication includes “Eye-Tracking Evidence on the Role of Second Language Proficiency in Integrated Writing Task Performance” In Papageorgiou, S., & Bailey, K. M. (Eds.). (2019). Global Perspective on Language Assessment. New York, NY: Routledge. She has been actively involved in the community of language assessment, most recently the New Directions, Yokohama, in helping to organize the Eye-tracking Colloquium.