What Does Toefl Stand For 4p656b

1. What does TOEFL stand for? Test Of English as a Foreign Language (Educational Testing Service) 2.

What is the purpose of a TOEFL test?

The purpose of the TOEFL iBT test is to evaluate the English proficiency of people whose native language is not English. The TOEFL iBT scores are primarily used as a measure of the ability of international students to use English in an academic environment. To quote the original TOEFL® framework document (Jamieson, Jones, Kirsch, Mosenthal, & Taylor, 2000, pp.10–11): “The purpose of the … test will be to measure the communicative language ability of people whose first language is not English … The test will measure examinees’ English-language proficiency in situations and tasks reflective of university life … ” where instruction is conducted in English. 3. Why is the TOEFL important? (give 3 reasons)  More Convenient You can take the TOEFL test at your choice of conveniently located, ETS-approved test sites around the world. You also save time and money since the entire test is given in one day, rather than coming back a second day like some other tests. 

Measures Academic Skills

The TOEFL test helps prove you have the English skills you will actually use in an academic classroom. In the test, you may read a age from a textbook and listen to a lecture and then speak or write in response, just like you would in a classroom. Because the test is composed of 100% academic questions and tasks, many universities consider it the most appropriate test to use when making issions decisions. 

Rates Speaking More Fairly

Sure, you can take a test with a Speaking interview, but what if your interviewer has a bad day and rates you lower than you deserve? With the TOEFL test, there's no doubt your score is more objective and reliable, because Speaking responses are recorded and evaluated by three to six ETS raters rather than only one rater from a local testing site. 4. Have you ever taken a TOEFL? What was your score? No, I 've never really taken a test TEOFL 5.    

How many sections does the TOEFL have? Which ones are they? Reading Listening Speaking Writing

6. How many questions are there in each section? Section reading listening Break speaking Writing

Number of Items/Tasks 36-70 34-51 6 tasks 2 tasks

Testing Time 60-100 minutes 60-90 10 minutes 20 minutes 50 minutes

Score Scale 0-30 0-30 0-30 0-30

Approximately 4 hours 0-120

Total

7. Explain each section of the TOEFL test.  Reading The Reading section measures test takers’ ability to understand university-level academic texts. TOEFL test takers read 3–5 ages of approximately 700 words each and answer 12–14 questions about each age. The ages contain all of the information needed to answer the questions; they require no special background knowledge. 

Listening

The Listening section measures test takers’ ability to understand spoken English in an academic setting. Test takers listen to 4–6 lectures, each 3–5 minutes long, and listen to 2–3 conversations, each about 3 minutes long. The questions are intended to assess test takers’ ability to: understand main ideas or important details; recognize a speaker’s attitude or function; understand the organization of the information presented; understand relationships between the ideas presented; and make inferences or connections among pieces of information. Listening questions are mostly multiplechoice questions with a single correct answer, and some questions have more than one answer, allowing for partial-credit scores. 

Speaking

The Speaking section measures test takers’ ability to speak English effectively in educational environments, both inside and outside of the classroom. The Speaking section consists of six tasks: Two of these tasks are independent; that is, test takers receive no oral or written test materials. On this task, test takers respond to a relatively general question on a familiar topic. The other four tasks assess integrated skills. On two of these tasks, test takers respond to both an oral and a written stimulus; in the other two integrated tasks, they respond to an oral stimulus. 

Writing

The Writing section measures test takers’ ability to write in an academic environment and includes two tasks — one independent and one integrated. 8. How is the TOEFL scored? Section

Range of Scores

What It Means

0-30

0-14 (low) 15-21 (intermediate) 22-30 (high)

0-30

0-14 (low) 15-21 (intermediate) 22-30 (high)

0-4 points, converted into a 0-30 scale

0-9 (weak) 10-17 (limited) 18-25 (fair) 26-30 (good)

Writing

0-5 points, converted into a 0-30 scale

1-16 (limited) 17-23 (fair) 24-30 (good)

TOTAL

0-120

Reading

Listening

Speaking

Paper-Based Test Listening Comprehension

31-68

Structure/Written Expression

31-68

Reading Comprehension

31-67

TOTAL

310 to 677

9. What is the minimum score needed to graduate at the university?

Examples: Minimum Score for

iBT PBT

Brown University, Department of Physics

61

500

University of California, Los Angeles, graduate división

87

560

University of Missouri

61

500

University of Washington, graduate Department of Communication

70

580

University of Wisconsin

61

500

10. Which personal and professional benefits would you have from having a good TOEFL score? TOEFL test scores help you stand out because of the TOEFL test's reputation for quality, fairness and 100% academic content. It is the most widely accepted English-language test in the world, including more than 9,000 colleges, universities, agencies and other institutions in 130 countries. And that list includes the top 100 universities in the world.