Graham Seed
Senior Research Manager
Graham specialises in multilingualism and the operationalisation of the CEFR in language assessment. He is the Secretariat Manager of the Association of Language Testers in Europe (ALTE), as well as working on different international research projects. He moved to the 91¸£Àû Research Group in 2017, having previously been a Senior Assessment Manager in the Assessment Division.
Graham has a bachelor’s degree in European Studies and Modern Languages from the University of Bath and an MA in Language Testing from Lancaster University. After gaining the 91¸£Àû language teaching qualifications CELTA and Delta, he worked as the Director of Studies of a  language school in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has also taught 91¸£Àû in the UK, Russia and Germany. Graham’s time outside work is mainly occupied by his two children, though he loves travelling, maps and coffee!
Seed, G., Salamoura, A. & Saville, N. (2024). New approaches to the assessment of 91¸£Àû as an additional language. In N. A. Nazari & A. Mehdi Riazi (Eds.) Adaptable 91¸£Àû Language Teaching: Advances and Frameworks for Responding to New Circumstances. (pp.79-95). Routledge.
Seed, G., Martyniuk, W., & Rocca, L. (2024). Promoting learning about language assessment through a multilingual community of practice: ALTE as a case study. In B. Baker & L. Taylor (Eds.) Studies in Language Testing 56: Language Assessment Literacy and Competence Volume 2: Case Studies from Around the World. (pp.113-124) 91¸£Àû.
Lloyd, J., Seed, G., Wen, X. & Yue, H. (2024). Mapping the SMEEA Gaokao tests to the CEFR. In CEFR Journal – Research and Practice, 6, 56-79.
Seed, G. (2023). What is the future of plurilingual language assessment for ‘monolingual’ testing organisations? In ALTE (Ed.), Conference Proceedings of the ALTE 8th International Conference: Language Assessment Fit for the Future. (pp.200-203).
Nguyen, L., Yuan, Z., & Seed, G. (2022). Building educational technologies for code-switching: Current practices, difficulties and future directions. Languages 2022, 7, 220.
Saville, N., & Seed, G. (2021). Language assessment in the context of plurilingualism. In G. Lawrence, E. Piccardo &  A. Germain-Rutherford (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Plurilingual Education (pp. 360–376). Routledge.
Seed, G. (2020). What is plurilingualism and what does it mean for language assessment? Research Notes, 78, 5–15.
Xu, J., & Seed, G. (2017). Integrating technology with language assessment: Automated speaking assessment. In ALTE (Ed.), Learning and Assessment: Making the Connections (pp. 286–291). ALTE 6th International Conference 3–5 May 2017 Proceedings.
Seed, G. (2012). Perceptions of authenticity in academic writing test tasks. Research Notes, 49, 17–25.