Jonathan Rees holds a B.A. in Modern Languages,  a M.A. in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, and Diplomas in Education and French Studies.

Jonathan  has been with the Unit since 1994 and is deputy Director of the Unit with special responsibility for staffing and assessment  issues. 

Jonathan has taught in different countries including Japan, China, Denmark and France.  He is an External Examiner for the JYA at Aston University  and an External Examiner for the International Foundation Programme run by the Northern Consortium of United Kingdom (Universities).

He has published widely on the area of assessment and study abroad issues. His research interests include: corpus applications to language testing, factors affecting foreign language proficiency gains within the study abroad context, and issues of quality and assessment within Higher Education.

List of recent publications:

Book chapters

Rees, J. and Klapper, J. (2005): Researching the benefits of residence abroad for students of modern languages. In Tight, M. (Ed.) International Perspectives on Higher Education Research. Elsevier Science/JAI Press

(In Press) Rees, J. and Klapper, J.  Issues in the longitudinal Measurement of Second Language Progress in a Study Abroad Context. In  Ortega, L. and Byrnes, H.  (Eds.) The Longitudinal Study of Advanced L2 Capabilities.  SLA Research Series.  Lawrence Erlbaum. New York.

Journal Articles

Rees, J. (1999): Predicting the Future of Foreign Language Aptitude Testing.

Proceedings of the PACSLRF Symposium on Individual Differences In Foreign Language Learning: Effects of Aptitude, Intelligence and Motivation. Aoyama University, Japan

Rees, J. (1999): Counting the Cost of International Assessment. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education Vol 24, 4 

Rees P. and Rees J. (2002): Reading Together: Capitalising on Inter-disciplinary Work in the Development and Refinement of Reading Tests. Educational Psychology in Practice Vol 18, 4

Klapper, J and Rees, J. (2003): Reviewing the case for explicit grammar instruction in the university foreign language learning context. Language Teaching Research. Vol 7

Klapper, J and Rees, J. (2004): Marks, Get, Set, Go: an evaluation of entry levels and progress rates on a university foreign language prgramme. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education Vol 29.1  

Rees, J. and Klapper, J. (2007): Analysing and evaluating the linguistic benefit of residence abroad for UK foreign language students . Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education Vol 32.1

Rees, J and Borland, H (in preparation) "To pre or not to pre: reviewing the efficacy of a subject specific Presessional "

Rees, J (in preparation) " Let's be more rational about cloze tests: a move towards computer assisted cloze test production"

Rees, J and Klapper, J (in preparation) "Explaining large individual differences in foreign language proficiency progress during residence abroad"