The purpose of this research was to determine the washback caused by a standardized test of English on eleventh year students. In order to obtain the data, 22 EFL teachers from Puerto Montt in Southern Chile, who were teaching English in eleventh grade at government subsidized private schools, answered a seventeenquestion long online questionnaire three months before the test took place. The data was analyzed and processed and the results evidenced a tendency towards a low impact from the test. Nevertheless, teachers perceived that once the results of the test become available they would be used by students, parents and school authorities to judge their teaching practices. These results seem to contradict the specialized literature regarding the washback caused by standardized examinations implemented on a national scale; however, the circumstances under which this test was implemented may provide the reason for this apparent discrepancy.
Keywords:
Inglés como idioma extranjero, Prueba estandarizada, Washback
Muñoz Alvarado, R. E., Muñoz Russell, V. S., & Vrsalovic Mihoevic, D. P. (2019). Impacto de prueba en profesores de inglés como idioma extranjero de un examen estandarizado aplicado a escala nacional. Lenguas Modernas, (53), pp. 67–78. Retrieved from https://revistadematematicas.uchile.cl/index.php/LM/article/view/55447
