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Article published In: The Language Testing Cycle: From inception to washback
Edited by Gillian Wigglesworth and Catherine Elder
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 13] 1996
► pp. 1–12

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Perspectives on the testing cycle

Setting the scene

 | University of Melbourne
 | Macquarie University
Published online: 1 January 1996
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