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Salmani Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2021
It has been argued in the literature on (language) testing that any act of testing/assessment can impact: (1) educators' curriculum design; (2) teachers' teaching practices; and (3) students' learning behaviors. This quality of any given testing situation or act of assessment has been called washback, or backwash if you will. Washback falls into…
Descriptors: Testing Problems, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Angelis, Paul J. – 1977
This paper discusses the relationship between language proficiency and intelligence. In particular, the paper is concerned with the elements of intelligence testing which creep into tests designed to determine language proficiency, and the proliferation of testing of all types and the kinds of interpretations made of these tests. Particular…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Aptitude Tests, English (Second Language), Higher Education