THE WASHBACK EFFECT OF TESTING ON STUDENTS’ LEARNING IN EFL WRITING CLASSES

İngilizce (OpenAlex)

This study displays the literature review that investigates what the drawbacks ofexams are on learning in general, then gives a brief account of a small scaleresearch conducted in two EFL writing classes. There has been extensive researchin related literature on the impact of testing on students learning a foreign language. In practice most of the teachers assess their students with scheduled examswhich they conduct in accordance with the syllabuses prepared at the beginning ofthe semester. The level and form of the negative effects change according to somefactors such as gender, age, the aim and level of learning. This study investigatedthe negative effects of testing and their reasons on elementary level EFL students’writing. The results indicate that learners’ anxiety level increase and their performance decrease when they know that it is an assessment