Reviewing the Empirical Studies on CET4

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10.2991/icem-17.2018.170How to use a DOI?

Keywords

CET4; Review; Reliability and validity; Washback

Abstract

Having a long history, testing has played an important social and educational role in China. Nowadays, there are many large-scale English tests designed locally, including the College English Test (CET), the National Matriculation English Test (NMET), the Test for English Majors (TEM), the Graduate School Entrance English Examination (GSEEE), the Public English Testing System (PETS), and so on. Among all those tests, CET4 is the most influential one for its large-scale participators. It exerts great impact on teachers, learners, and even the whole society. However, compared with the flourished theoretical and empirical studies abroad, the study in China has been lagged behind by western countries. In this article, it makes a brief review about empirical researches on CET4, intending to inspire more such work and studies about it, in the wish of more and more researches flowing out concerning different aspects of CET4 in the near future.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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