• Washback
The effect of testing on teaching and learning”, either good or bad (Hughes, 2003:1). While an importance of its universality in Japan, the TOEIC test must have a backwash effect on many classrooms learners and teachers. Surely, some of that washback is positive. Students being moved to study more in order to succeed a higher score in the test should be judged positively. However, negative washback is also certainly in data too.
In their concern to help students succeed higher TOEIC scores earlier to graduation and opening the business, more and more universities during Japan are following English ability classes with TOEIC training classes. Informative skill is patently not the basic purpose of these classes, and directions time is focused on learning discrete grammar items and learning test-taking plans (Miller, 2003).
In a business ecosystem, teachers are possible to have to deal with opposing demands, between opening the students what the teacher understands they need, and giving the consumers what they want (the consumers being companies, universities or individuals). Brown‟s study focusing on graded reading for TOEIC development (2006) gives a clear example of the positions teachers face. Table 8 highlights students‟ need of relationship between learning helping English and helping TOEIC score and the development of understanding after a false TOEIC test was managed. “Even though learners understood the reading was developing their study speed and facility, they did not see a connection between TOEIC successes.” (H. Brown, 2006: 1176)