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Testing Language, but What?: Examining the Carrier Content of IELTS Preparation Materials from a Critical Perspective
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Noori, Mahdieh; Mirhosseini, Seyyed-Abdolhamid – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
The implicit sociocultural functioning of the "content" of high-stakes English language proficiency tests is a rarely-explored concern in language assessment. This study attempts to bring critical views of language testing and critical discourse studies together to examine the content of IELTS preparation materials in search of topics…
Descriptors: Test Preparation, High Stakes Tests, English (Second Language), Language Tests