Volume 11 contains studies on varying themes that continue to attract attention and provoke debate
among the language testing community and beyond. Three of the six studies in this volume address
themes of washback and impact which were also the focus of IELTS Research Reports Volume 10
(2009), and of the earlier Volume 8 (2008), but the work presented here breaks some new ground in the
area of IELTS washback and impact. One study extends earlier research conducted among professional
associations and registration entities using IELTS, while the other two studies explore the use and role of
IELTS in contexts that have so far received relatively little research attention, namely teacher education
and other postgraduate entry university courses.