TOEFL Reading and Listening: New Question Types and Adaptive Testing
If you’ve been paying attention to the news about English Language Testing or have been following me on LinkedIn, you already know that the new TOEFL has undergone some major changes. In this blog post I’m going to discuss changes to the reading and listening section and how adaptive testing changes the experience for test […]
TOEFL Speaking: A Shift Towards Spontaneous Speech
Over the past few months I’ve been analyzing the speaking section of the new TOEFL. Here are my thoughts about the changes, the new questions, and how to prepare. What was the old TOEFL like? The previous TOEFL had 4 questions, and the overarching theme was being able to explain things and prepare your speaking. […]
A New Era for TOEFL
The TOEFL that I’ve known and loved for almost 14 years is now no more. While it underwent changes over that time, most of them were the elimination of questions to make the test shorter. One notable exception was the replacement of the essay question with the writing for an academic discussion question. I’m dealing […]