Language Learning and Testing Foundation

Charles Stansfield

Dr. Charles Stansfield is an authority on second language testing. During his 50 year career, he has been a secondary school teacher of Spanish, a tenured professor of Spanish and teacher trainer at the University of Colorado, a test program administrator at Educational Testing Service, director of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics, and director of the Division of Foreign Language Education and Testing at the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington, DC.  In 1994, he founded Second Language Testing, Inc., for which he served as CEO until its acquisition by Berlitz Languages.  Since 2014, he has devoted himself to managing LLTF.

Dr. Stansfield has developed and published proficiency tests in English as a second language and in 15 other languages. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books and research monographs and 60 research articles published in professional journals.

He has been a member of the editorial boards of Language Testing, the Modern Language Journal, TESOL Quarterly, and the Journal of Second Language Writing.  You can find more information about Dr. Stansfield’s background qualifications in the right menu.