Washback in Language Testing : Research Contexts and Methods

By Liying Cheng, Yoshino Watanabe. 2004

334 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education

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Citations in the corpus

• Intentions and realities in implementing communicative curriculum reform (2009, background): “The influence of assessment on teaching is well-established (e.g. Andrews, 2004; Cheng, 1997; Cheng and Watanabe, 2004; Choi, 2008) and it is clear that changes in examinations can promote parallel changes in pedagogic practices.”
• The Implementation of Communicative and Task-Based Language Teaching in the Asia-Pacific Region (2011, background): “Although the washback effects of testing are not as straightforward as one might expect (L. Cheng & Watanabe, 2004), there is little room for teachers to develop bottom-up influence or control under the current exam culture that prevails in Asia.”