Christine Coombe has a Ph.D in Foreign/Second Language Education from The Ohio State University. She is currently on the English faculty of Dubai Men's College and works as an Assessment Leader for the Higher Colleges of Technology. She is the former Testing and Measurements Supervisor at UAE University and Assessment Coordinator of Zayed University. Christine is co-editor of the Assessment Practices volume in the TESOL Case Studies series; co-author of A Practical Guide to Assessing English Language Learners (2007, University of Michigan Press); co-editor of Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness in EF/SL Contexts (2007, University of Michigan Press); co-editor of Language Teacher Research in the Middle East (2007, TESOL Publications) and Leadership in English Language Teaching and Learning (2008, University of Michigan Press). Christine’s forthcoming books are on task-based learning and reigniting, retooling and retiring in English language teaching.
Christine has lived and worked in the Arabian Gulf for the past 15 years. In this capacity, she has served as President of TESOL Arabia and as the founder and co-chair of the TESOL Arabia Testing, Assessment and Evaluation Special Interest Group who organize the Current Trends in English Language Testing (CTELT) Conference. Dr. Coombe has participated in large-scale assessment and assessment development projects in Russia, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, China, Central Asia and the U.A.E.