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154 ELT Journal Volume 59/2 April 2005 Q Oxford University Press
doi:10.1093/eltj/cci030
in which language testing is characterized as the exercise of power by one
party over another (Shohamy 2001).
Assertions about the nature, extent, and direction (positive/negative) of
impact in language testing have often been based on assumptions rather
than on empirical evidence. Alderson and Wall (1993) argued the need
for empirical investigation and were among the first to develop