diff --git a/src/accelerate/test_utils/testing.py b/src/accelerate/test_utils/testing.py
index 6c8e9b0d7e4..b10ab1f15cd 100644
--- a/src/accelerate/test_utils/testing.py
+++ b/src/accelerate/test_utils/testing.py
@@ -338,8 +338,8 @@ def tee(line, sink, pipe, label=""):
     # XXX: the timeout doesn't seem to make any difference here
     await asyncio.wait(
         [
-            _read_stream(p.stdout, lambda l: tee(l, out, sys.stdout, label="stdout:")),
-            _read_stream(p.stderr, lambda l: tee(l, err, sys.stderr, label="stderr:")),
+            asyncio.create_task(_read_stream(p.stdout, lambda l: tee(l, out, sys.stdout, label="stdout:"))),
+            asyncio.create_task(_read_stream(p.stderr, lambda l: tee(l, err, sys.stderr, label="stderr:"))),
         ],
         timeout=timeout,
     )