About TOEFL Junior_® Test

The TOEFL Junior_® Tests measures the degree to which middle-school students have attained proficiency in the academic and social English-language skills representative of English-medium instructional environments.

Usually these students are ages 11-15. However, the test may be appropriate for other students. It is a general English-language proficiency test not based on or limited to any specific curriculum. The appropriateness is based on the English-language proficiency of the students.

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The TOEFL Junior_® tests, intended for students ages 11+, provide real insight into your students' English communication skills to help you make the best decisions and guide them on a path to success.

To better meet the expectations of English-language programs worldwide, the TOEFL Junior tests measure a range of skills:

• TOEFL Junior_® Standard test — paper-based test, the test that measures Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, and Language Form and Meaning.
• TOEFL Junior_® Speaking test — a digitally delivered test that measures students' ability to communicate orally in English in an academic classroom.
• TOEFL Junior_® Writing test — digitally delivered test that measures students' writing ability in English in an academic classroom through communicative tasks.

Both the TOEFL Junior Standard and Speaking tests are available on the following digital platforms: Windows_® PC, Mac_® , iPad_® and Chromebook_™.

TOEFL Junior_® Test Design

The TOEFL Junior_® Test is a paper-based test consisting of 126 multiple-choice questions. It includes three sections: Listening Comprehension, Language Form and Meaning, and Reading Comprehension. Each section contains 42 four-choice questions.

The table below summarizes the structure and timing of the test:

1. Listening Comprehension

The section is designed to measure the listening skills needed for success in an English-medium instructional environment.

Three key skills are measured - the abilities to listen for:

• Basic, interpersonal purposes
• Instructional purposes
• Academic purposes

Listening: Classroom Instruction

Classroom Instruction items provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to understand information disseminated as instructions, announcements, etc. by teachers and other school staff. Listening abilities tested include:

• Main idea
• Speaker's purpose
• Inference
• Prediction

Listening: Short Conversations

Short Conversations provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to listen to and understand short conversations about student life in English. Listening abilities tested include:

• Main idea
• Detail
• Inference
• Prediction
• Rhetorical device
• Prosody

Listening: Academic Talks

Academic Listening sets provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to learn new information in English in an academic context. Listening abilities tested included:

• Main idea
• Detail
• Inference
• Prediction
• Rhetorical device
• Prosody

2. Language Form and Meaning

The section is designed to assess students' understanding of the structure of English and the depth of their vocabulary knowledge. The items are as close exercises embedded within a single paragraph.

Text Types:

• Expository
• Biographical
• Correspondence
• Announcement
• Advertisement
• Fiction

Language Meaning Question Types:

• Noun
• Verb
• Modifier
• Determiner
• Preposition
• Conjunction

Language Form Question Types:

• Subject
• Object
• Subject and verb
• Verb form
• Passive voice
• Adjective or adjective phrase
• Adverb or adverb phrase
• Object complement
• Relative clause
• Noun phrase or noun clause
• Expletive
• Comparative or superlative
• Predicate nominative
• Word order
• Word form

3. Reading Comprehension

The section is designed to assess the degree to which students have the reading skills representative of English-medium instructional environments. This includes two general types of reading:

• The ability to read and comprehend academic texts
• The ability to read and comprehend non-academic texts

Text types are representative of genres that middle school students might encounter in a classroom

• Non-linear texts
• Correspondence
• Journalism
• Fiction
• Expository
• Biographical
• Persuasive

TOEFL Junior_® Score Report features

• Include section and total scores as well as "can-do" statements that can use to help students, parents and instructors understand students' proficiency levels and progress.
• Scores are mapped to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) levels.
• A Lexile measure to help find books at the task taker's English reading level.

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