Publications

Publication details [#27017]

Alderson, J. Charles and Dianne Wall. 1993. Does washback exist? Applied Linguistics 14 (2) : 116–129.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | language teaching | testing

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This article draws on empirical research in general and language education to examine whether 'washback', i.e. the notion that testing influences teaching, really exists, what makes up its form, and how it can be measured.