Born:(1946-02-12) 12 February 1946 (age 80), Lancaster, United Kingdom
Awards:Honorary Fellow, Trinity College Laban, London (2010), , Honorary Doctorate, Jyväskylä University, Finland (2009), , Excellence in Doctoral Supervision, Lancaster University Staff Award (2008), , Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Language Testing Association (2008)
Fields:Language assessment
Thesis:A Study of the Cloze Procedure with Native and Non-Native Speakers of English (1977)
Website:Alderson on the website of Lancaster University
Known for:Language assessment
Alma mater:University of Oxford, , Edinburgh University
Institutions:University of Düsseldorf, , University of Algiers, , National Autonomous University of Mexico, , University of Michigan, , Lancaster University