The Evaluation of TOEFL test

The Evaluation of TOEFL test Xiajie Tang TOEFL stands for Test of English as a Foreign Language. The test is not a test for business or professional purposes. That is, the TOEFL test is not intended for students of a particular subject or major. The purpose of TOEFL is to assess English proficiency of persons especially for international students whose native language is not English in an academic environment by adopting various academic topics. It tests individuals’ reading, listening, speaking and writing skills in English. The test is used in college admissions for non-native English speaking students to an English-speaking country purposes. Although it provides scores of test takers so that college administrators can know their English proficiency directly, the test is not aim at ranking. The test divides criteria into four parts: reading, listening, speaking and writing. According to process, reading comprehension is the first part should be measured. This part tests test takers’ ability to comprehend academic reading materials. In this section, the format of questions is multiple choices and content of test questions involves in various ways such as testing vocabulary, details, and main ideas. To avoid creating an advantage to examinees in any one field of study, sufficient context is provided so that no specific subject can be used to answer the questions. It is a big advantage of the test. Moreover, other advantage is like that, due to diversified questions, it helps learners to know how to get information effectively in a limited time. It also encourages test takers to read more academic materials involving in different area and critically think how to read different academic articles when they are learning. However, the questions of reading test mostly adopt multiple choice rather than short answer. It may limit takers