John Upshur

John A. Upshur is Professor of Applied linguistics at the TESL Centre at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. His main interests are second language education and assessment.

Stephen Krashen acknowledges Upshur's inspiration in developing his own Theory of second language acquisition.

Publications

 * Genesee, Fred and Upshur, John A. (1996) Classroom-Based Evaluation in Second Language Education Cambridge University Press (at Google Books)
 * Upshur, John A. and Turner, Carolyn E. "Constructing rating scales for second language tests" ELT Journal Volume 49, Issue 1 pp. 3-12] ELT Journal Oxford University Press