TOEFL%20iBT%20Speaking%20Introduction

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TOEFL iBT Speaking Introduction

• By Cathy Chang

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Time Limits

• Total of 20 minutes
• Independent Questions the questions will be read
  to you.
• You have 1530 seconds to prepare
• You have 4560 seconds to answer
• Integrated Questions please read the questions.
• You have 1530 seconds to prepare
• You have 45 60 seconds to answer

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Types

• Total of 6 tasks/questions
• 2 Independent Tasks
• The questions in this section ask you to respond
  from your personal experience
• 4 Integrated Tasks
• 2 reading, listening, and speaking consist of a
  reading passage, a listening passage, and a
  question that asks how the ideas in the two
  passages are related
• 2 listening and speaking integrated consist of
  a longer listening passage and a question that
  asks you to summarize key points of the passage

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Independent Tasks
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Independent Tasks

• 2 types
• Free-choice response
• You have to express and defend a personal choice
  from a given category
• For example, which city in the world would you
  like to visit, why?
• Paired-choice response
• You have to make and defend a personal choice
  between two contrasting behaviors or courses of
  action
• For example, do you like to travel alone or with
  company?

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Planning

• Steps
• Start with a topic statement that states the main
  point of the response
• Support the topic statement with details
• Use transitions to show how the ideas are related

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Integrated Tasks
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Integrated Tasks

• 2 Types
• Reading/Listening/Speaking the relationship
  between the ideas in the reading passage and the
  listening passage
• A campus topic about school
• An academic topic about classes/subjects
• Listening/Speaking the main points of the
  listening passage
• A campus topic
• An academic topic

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Planning

• Steps
• 1. Make sure you understand (and take notes on)
• the topic
• 2. Then focus on (and take notes on) the main
• points that are used to support the topic
• 3. Responding determine what is being asked

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Basic Scoring
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Things they look for

• Delivery
• Speaking smoothly and clearly
• Language Use
• Effective use of vocabulary, grammar, and
  sentence structures
• Topic Development
• Response answers the question
• Response is well developed and clear
• Relationships between ideas are clear

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Important Points to Remember

• Take notes while reading and listening to the
  conversations and lectures
• Directions for each questions will not be written
  on the screen
• Only jot down main ideas (not word for word)
  Remember to answer the question asked
• Its better to speak slowly and clearly than
  quickly and mumbling

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Reference

• Philips, Deborah. Longman Preparation Course for
  the TOEFL Test iBT. New York Longman, 2006.