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The Redesigned TOEIC® Listening and Reading test |
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For more than 25 years, businesses, government agencies, educational institutions and English language learning programmes around the world have relied on the TOEIC® test (TEST OF ENGLISH FOR INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION TM) to evaluate the English proficiency of non-native English-speaking people. With more than 4.5 million test takers per year, the TOEIC® test is the global standard for assessing workplace English-language proficiency.
Why did we redesign the TOEIC® test | | | | To obtain a better measure of workplace English | | - • Emphasis is on workplace situations
- • 4 business English accents instead of 1
(Canadian + British + American + Australian) - • Alternate short and extended spoken texts
| - • Understanding of new vocabulary and grammatical workplace texts
- • Capacity of connecting information across multiple sentences
| | | | | To align test with current view of language proficiency information for test takers and test users | | By measuring - • Communicative Skills, authentic tasks and real world language use
- • Skill related strategies
| To offer advanced Measurement Design Methodology - • Measures abilities independently
- • Provides real evidence of abilities
| | | | | To provide useful proficiency information to test takers and test users through | | New score report
- • In specific English language ability areas
- • Strengths and weaknesses
- • Suggestions for improvement
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What improvements, and why? | Evolution | | | | Benefits | | | | | | | | | - • Longer listening stimuli
- • Short conversations as sets
- • Varied accents
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| Real-world listening skills tested | | | | • Reduced number of photographic items |
| More time for testing authentic tasks | | | | - • Text-based sentence completion items
- • Use of two interrelated passages in some reading sets
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| Better reading proficiency testing | | | | | | | |
Join one of our free redesigned TOEIC® test online training sessions to become an expert |
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