On the Authenticity of IELTS Academic Tests

The purpose of this paper was to investigate the authenticity of IELTS academic tests. Bachman and Palmer (1996, p. 23) define authenticity as “the degree of correspondence of the characteristics of a given language test task to the features of a target language task”. Authenticity is then an import...

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Main Author: Goodarz Shakibaei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Sistan and Baluchestan 2017-10-01
Series:Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies
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Online Access:https://ijals.usb.ac.ir/article_4231_6cfa6b35fc2672a1290e61f35522b9ce.pdf