A Study on the Washback of TEM 8 on Business English Majors

This paper explores the specific washback effects of TEM8 on Business English Majors(BE Majors) under the theoretical framework of washback mechanism.The aim is to research on the feasibility of the current TEM8 for evaluating BE Majors’ highest language proficiency level.To this end,an empirical study by means of questionnaire surveys is conducted among 120 senior BE majors in SUIBE and some suggestions are made to develop a highest proficiency test system for BE majors.