The Characteristics of the Renewed TOEIC Test

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  • 新TOEICテストの特徴
  • シン TOEIC テスト ノ トクチョウ

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This report aims to offer basic information on the TOEIC Test which was renewed in May 2006and its characteristics for discussions about how it should be utilized as a way of the Englishlanguage education in universities. The article focuses on the Reading Section (Part 5,6 and 7) forthe reason that the Listening one is considered to be well devised and useful for universitystudents as well. What I regard as the seven features of the reading part are as follows: the testcannot measure the test takers' ability to find the gist of a passage by themselves or to express thesummary; the test does not require special expertise on business; the test tries to evaluatespeaking and writing skills indirectly by evaluating listening and reading skills only; the test aims tomeasure the ability to deal rapidly with a large number of basic questions; Part 5 (IncompleteSentences) & 6 (Text Completion) include lots of basic questions and it is possible to solve some80% of them with the senior high school level knowledge of English; it is essential to get used tovarious formats of documents in order to cope with Part 7 (Reading Comprehension); there is apossibility that test takers acquire a knack for effective 'skipping' rather than rapid reading. Inconclusion, as the TOEIC Test is designed with specific purposes, it should be treated accordinglyin academic places where college students are required to have the skill of intensive reading andcritical thinking as well.

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