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phoenixstorm
Joined: 06 Mar 2007
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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 Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:33 am Post subject: Toefl Certification |
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Does anyone here have it? Did you take the test in Korea? Did you take it online? Is is simply a test or do you have to undertake a course for certification?
How much was it and was it worth it? |
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Fresh Prince
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: The glorious nation of Korea
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:42 am Post subject: |
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| Do you mean the Test Of English as a Foreign Language? It's for non-native speakers to prove they can speak English well enough to go to a university in an English speaking country. |
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phoenixstorm
Joined: 06 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not sure now. I'm confused. I was told that to teach the toefl class I needed to be certified and to have like a 100 on the test and then the school would kick in big money for me to teach the class.
if the test is for non native speakers what would be the point of taking it? |
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Otherside
Joined: 06 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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Well the test is for non-native speakers. Many students in Korea study JU
ST for the test and while they may achieve good test scores, their actual ability is rather poor. The school obviously wants to gauge your ability for teaching the TEST, so a perfect test score would be ideal.
Due to the nature of these tests it's not uncommon for native speakers to do rather poorly on these tests, and a perfect score is actually very hard to get even for a native speaker with otherwise perfect English. |
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travelingfool
Joined: 10 Mar 2008
Location: Parents' basement
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| phoenixstorm wrote: |
I'm not sure now. I'm confused. I was told that to teach the toefl class I needed to be certified and to have like a 100 on the test and then the school would kick in big money for me to teach the class.
if the test is for non native speakers what would be the point of taking it? |
I don't know of any certification per se except these courses which are offered by ETS http://www.ets.org/portal/site/ets/menuitem.1488512ecfd5b8849a77b13bc3921509/?vgnextoid=a114c4cfc3f9e010VgnVCM10000022f95190RCRD&vgnextchannel=394de760b8795010VgnVCM10000022f95190RCRD
I took the Propell course in Vancouver and it was quite informative. If you have to teach TOEFL ibt preparation, the best thing you can do is take an entire rated practice test yourself to get a feel for what your students are up against. The ETS website has some really helpful information. As part of the seminar I went to they had us take parts of the test ourselves. Here is an example of the test: you will listen to a 3 to 5 minute conversation between a student and professor. Then, you will be asked to make comments and answer questions about the conversation you just heard by speaking your responses into a microphone, which are recorded and graded later. You then could be asked to write an opinion or asked to make inferences concerning what was said, thus testing your writing and comprehension ability. It's called the integrated skills approach. I think it's virtually impossible to BS your way through this test. If your English stinks, you will bomb it.
Anyways, the ETS website is a good place to start. |
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