College Prep and English Immersion Program The American College Classroom Class discussion Make mistakes Increased responsibility TOEFL and ACTFL OPI Overview TOEFL Exam Structure and Contents ID: 159879
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The College of Idaho
College Prep and English Immersion ProgramSlide2
The American (College) ClassroomSlide3
Class discussionSlide4
Make mistakesSlide5
Increased responsibilitySlide6
TOEFL and ACTFL OPI OverviewSlide7
TOEFL Exam Structure and Contents
There are four sections to the TOEFL Exam
Reading, Listening, Writing, Speaking
Reading section – 3-4 passages, 12-14 questions each, 60-80 minutes in length
Listening section – 4-6 lectures, 6 questions each & 2-3 conversations, 5 questions each, 60-90 minutes in length
Break 10 minutes
Speaking section – 6 tasks: 2 independent and 4 integrated, 20 minutes in length
Writing 1 integrated task, 20 minutes in length and 1 independent task, 30 minutes in lengthSlide8
Reading Section
3 to 4 passages (20 minutes allowed per passage)Focuses on college-level academic content
Reading section strategies
Manage the clock and focus
Read question then read text
Summarize each paragraph as you readSlide9
Listening Section
4-6 lectures with 6 questions each; lectures are around 5 minutes in length2 or 3 conversations with 5 questions each; conversations are around 3 minutes in length
Listening Strategies
Staying focused and remembering details
Taking notes (structural notes)Slide10
Speaking Section
20 minutes in length6 questionsFormat of questions differ –
see this excellent infographic
Speaking Advice
Practice speaking section over and over to prepare and accustom yourself to the format
Avoid distraction and stay focused
Create outline and focus on itSlide11
Writing Section
2 essays; 1 integrated and 1 independent essay questionWriting Strategies
Don’t get lost in text
Connect text to lecture material and synthesize
Use variety of sentence structures in your writingSlide12
TOEFL Scoring
Scores range from 0-120Reading and Listening sections are scored
by computer
Writing and Speaking sections are hand scored
by a person
Each section is worth 30 pointsSlide13
Writing and Speaking – Hand Scoring
These sections are scored by at least two Educational Training Services (ETS) graders who independently score your responses. If their scores differ by more than one point
(
0-5
scale), then a third grader arbitrates the grade.
Scores are then standardized to the 30 point scaleSlide14
Understanding Your ACTFL RatingSlide15
Novice Speaker
Novice-level speakers can communicate short messages on highly predictable, everyday topics that affect them directly
. They do so primarily through the use of
isolated words and phrases
that have been encountered, memorized, and recalled. Novice-level speakers may be difficult to understand even by the most sympathetic interlocutors accustomed to non-native speech.Slide16
Intermediate Speaker
Speakers at the Intermediate level are distinguished primarily by their ability to create with the language
when talking about familiar topics related to their daily life. They are able to recombine learned material in order to express personal meaning.
Intermediate level
speakers can ask simple questions and can handle a straightforward survival situation. They produce
sentence-level language, ranging from discrete sentences to strings of sentences
, typically in
present time
. Intermediate-level speakers are understood by interlocutors who are accustomed to dealing with non-native learners of the language.Slide17
Advanced Speaker
Speakers at the Advanced level engage in conversation in a clearly participatory manner in order to communicate information on autobiographical topics, as well as topics of community, national, or international interest
. The topics are handled concretely by means of
narration and description in the major times frames
of past, present, and future.
These speakers can also deal with a social situation with an unexpected complication. The language of Advanced-level speakers is abundant, the
oral paragraph
being the measure of Advanced-level length and discourse. Advanced-level speakers have sufficient control of basic structures and generic vocabulary to be understood by native speakers of the language, including those unaccustomed to non-native speech.Slide18
Sample speech
Samples
Listen to the speech sample and discuss with a partner what you level you think the speaker is at (Novice, Intermediate, Advanced)