The International English Language Testing System(IELTS)is a large-scale and widely recognized test which has a nine-band to identify the language proficiency levels.As a crucial measurement for candidates’English pr...The International English Language Testing System(IELTS)is a large-scale and widely recognized test which has a nine-band to identify the language proficiency levels.As a crucial measurement for candidates’English proficiency,it can be accepted for higher academic pursue and migration.The writing,an integrative part in IELTS,will be discussed in this paper.The investigation on IELTS writing is initially realized by presenting some basic information including purposes,components and criteria.And the critique will narrow down to the reliability,validity and topics compatibility.The potential backwash such as discrimination of other various rhetorical conventions is also discussed,and consequently,several tentative suggestions proposed are hopefully conducive for improvement.展开更多
文摘The International English Language Testing System(IELTS)is a large-scale and widely recognized test which has a nine-band to identify the language proficiency levels.As a crucial measurement for candidates’English proficiency,it can be accepted for higher academic pursue and migration.The writing,an integrative part in IELTS,will be discussed in this paper.The investigation on IELTS writing is initially realized by presenting some basic information including purposes,components and criteria.And the critique will narrow down to the reliability,validity and topics compatibility.The potential backwash such as discrimination of other various rhetorical conventions is also discussed,and consequently,several tentative suggestions proposed are hopefully conducive for improvement.