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Direct linkDavid Allen; Kimie Yamamura; Sayaka Meguro; Takamichi Nakamura – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
The use of four-skills language exams to support the achievement of curriculum goals in Japan is an under-researched yet critical topic. This study focuses on washback from the Cambridge B1 Preliminary and B2 First exams, which were used as fixed-point tests at a senior high school. A mixed-methods approach was adopted, utilizing data from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Testing Problems, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
David Allen; Rie Koizumi – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
"The English Speaking Achievement Test for Japanese Junior High School Students" (ESAT-J) was introduced to contribute to levelling up public English education in Tokyo in 2022. Critics, however, have made claims in the mass media against the use of the test and stakeholder groups have called for its cancellation. This paper presents an…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students
