Article published in:
The Language Testing Cycle: From inception to washback
Edited by Gillian Wigglesworth and Catherine Elder
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 13] 1996
► pp. 1–12

Perspectives on the testing cycle

Setting the scene

| University of Melbourne
| Macquarie University
Published online: 01 January 1996
https://doi.org/10.1075/aralss.13.01eld
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