TOEFL: Port of Entry Full-Time Program

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This advanced class provides both a comprehensive language skills course and a wealth of practice for all sections of the iBT, giving students all the tools they need to continue practicing for the TOEFL iBT integrated skills test. The reading and audio passages reviewed in this class usecollege level vocabulary, structures, and concepts comparable to the language level employed on the iBT test. Upon completion of this course, students are ready to handle the more rigorous material taught in higher education. The TOEFL iBT Course covers four areas of lanquage skills.

Upon successful completion of this course:

Students will build upon and master the following Reading skills:

  • Determine the meaning of college-level vocabulary words using contextual cues
  • Infer information
  • Complete summaries and charts
  • Determine the purpose, method and opinion of the author

Students will develop the following Writing skills:

  • Brainstorm on any given topic and make a brief outline for an essay
  • Master the conventional format of an academic essay
  • Use transitions and other connective grammatical structures to write coherently and cohesively
  • Employ complex sentence structures
  • Proofread essays to correct global grammatical errors
  • Take thorough notes on audio and reading passages
  • Synthesize meaning from the audio and reading passages and express relationship between them
  • Summarize and paraphrase audio and reading texts

Students will build upon and master the following Listening skills:

  • Take thorough notes on academic lectures
  • Determine the main idea and main purpose of lectures
  • Answer questions about details including negative factual and inference questions
  • Identify the purpose, method, and attitude of the speaker
  • Order processes and sequences in a passage
  • Complete informational charts

Students will develop the following Speaking skills:

  • Verbally respond to personal preference and paired choice questions spontaneously after a few seconds of preparation
  • Support opinions with concrete details
  • Respond coherently and cohesively through the use of transitions and other connective rhetorical devices
  • Synthesize meaning from audio and reading texts and verbally explain the relationship between both
  • Discuss relationships between written announcements and discussions, general and specific information, and problem solution texts
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