The TOEFL is a hurdle most students must overcome to achieve their goals. As a result, they are constantly seeking advice and desiring more TOEFL-related practice. For most students, the TOEFL Reading section seems the most daunting. Consequently, they may pressure you to focus more on preparing them for the TOEFL. There are many ways to do this without letting it take over your class. Here are some suggestions:
- Connect the strategies you are practicing to the TOEFL. Help students see how mastering that specific strategy will help them when taking the test (i.e., Being able to guess words from context will help students focus more on the reading as a whole rather than worrying about specific things they don't understand.).
- Designate some class time to specific TOEFL instruction. Depending on the level, you could take time each week or month to focus on the TOEFL Reading section. You could bring in example reading passages and questions to discuss as a class and connect them to the things being taught in class.
- Practice specific question types. Helping students to become familiar with the structure of the questions is one great way to help them prepare for the TOEFL. You could focus TOEFL instruction on specific question types or test-taking strategies. Here are some areas where most students struggle:
- process of elimination
- negative factual information questions
- prose summary questions
- inference questions
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