TOEFL (Test of English as a foreign language-English test as a foreign language) is an English proficiency test organized by educational testing service, which is aimed at students from non-English-speaking countries who apply for universities or graduate schools in the United States or Canada. Educational testing service began to take charge of the examination from 1965.

Translated from English TOEFL, it is an English proficiency test for foreign students in the United States, and is called "TOEFL" in China. The word "TOEFL" is the daily spoken language of China people, which means auspicious words. To take the TOEFL, you have to rely on TOEFL. No matter who owes it, students hope to pass the exam smoothly.

From 1988 to 1989, more than 560,000 people around the world took the T0FFL test, and more than 1700 T0FFL test centers were established in more than170 countries and regions around the world. So far, there are more than 2,300 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. It is stipulated that all foreign students applying for admission must provide one or two standardized tests in T0FFL, GRE, GMAT or TSE. Only applicants who have achieved the required grades can get admission and apply for scholarships. In addition to universities in the United States, Canada and other countries, some countries and regions in Europe (such as Britain), Oceania (such as Australia and New Zealand) and Southeast Asia also recognize T0EFL test results. In recent years, domestic organizations of the United Nations in China, foreign companies and joint ventures have also adopted T0FFL test scores when hiring staff or when testing staff's English proficiency at the International Fund.

Now as long as you study in an English-speaking country, you have to take the TOEFL as a proof of your English living ability.

In September 2005, education examination service? ETS will launch a brand-new comprehensive English test on a global scale, that is, the new TOEFL test, which can reflect the actual needs of teaching and campus life in first-class universities.

The new TOEFL test consists of four parts, namely reading, listening, speaking and writing.

First, there are three articles to read.

Different from the current TOEFL, candidates do not need to read the full text before answering the questions, but read the articles in sections during the process of doing the questions. Each article has 1 1 questions, all of which are multiple-choice questions. Except for the last question, all the other questions are aimed at a certain part of the article, and the order of the questions is consistent with the order of the paragraphs in the article. The last question is a question about the whole article, asking candidates to choose several options to summarize or summarize the whole article. The new generation of TOEFL reading articles is slightly longer and more difficult than the current TOEFL reading articles. The duration of this section is 1 hour, during which candidates can review and modify the submitted answers.

Second, listening cancels short conversations.

It consists of two long campus situational dialogues and four classroom speeches, each lasting about 5 minutes. Because it is a computer test, candidates can't know the test questions before listening to the recorded materials. When playing the recorded data, the corresponding background picture will be displayed on the computer screen. Candidates can take notes while listening. Candidates cannot review and modify the submitted answers. This part lasts about 50 minutes.

Thirdly, the oral test will integrate TSE (Oral Test) into the new TOEFL.

But compared with the current TSE, it has changed a lot. There are 6 questions in this section * * *, and the duration is about 20 minutes.

The first and second questions require candidates to explain their views on a topic.

Questions 3 and 4 require candidates to read a short passage within 45 seconds, then hide the short passage and play a dialogue or class speech related to the short passage. Finally, candidates are asked to answer relevant questions according to the short passages they read before and the dialogues or classroom speeches they play. Candidates have 30 seconds to prepare and then 60 seconds to answer. For example, the article describes two plans to expand the school gymnasium. In the dialogue, a classmate explained his position, that is, which scheme is in favor of and which scheme is against, and listed several reasons. Ask the examinee to describe his/her position in the dialogue and explain what reasons he/she cited to support this view.

Questions 5 and 6 require candidates to listen to a campus situational dialogue or classroom speech, and then answer related questions. Candidates have 20 seconds to prepare and then 60 seconds to answer questions. For example, first broadcast a lecture on marketing, the professor lists two methods of market research, and then ask candidates to describe the two methods of market research listed by the professor with the viewpoints and examples in the lecture.

Candidates can take notes during listening to help answer questions. When preparing and answering questions, a countdown clock will be displayed on the screen.

4. Writing requires candidates to complete two compositions within 1 hour.

One of them is similar to the current TOEFL writing, which requires candidates to explain their views on a topic within 30 minutes, and the number of words required is more than 300 words.

The other requires candidates to read an article first. After five minutes, the article disappears and the lecture related to the article is played. The lecture notes list some arguments to refute the arguments and arguments in the article. Then ask the candidates to write a composition within 20 minutes, summarize the arguments and arguments of the class speech, and state how these arguments and arguments refute the arguments and arguments of the article. The required number of words is between 150 and 225 words. When writing, the article will reappear on the screen. This composition does not require candidates to elaborate their views.

The content and form of the examination

Will the new TOEFL test use real scenes? For example, simulating the dynamic interactive environment in a university campus, the test questions comprehensively examine the ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing in four English languages, and candidates can fully demonstrate their ability to communicate in English.

The new TOEFL test will be conducted through the internet, and the test will take the form of computer test. The test time and the number of questions in each part of the new TOEFL are fixed. However, the exam did not use the method of computer-generated questions, that is to say, the difficulty of the questions has nothing to do with whether the answers to the previous questions are accurate or not.