The TOEFL-ITP test within the Ciências sem Fronteiras Program

  • Patricia Marcuzzo Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
  • Francine Azambuja Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
Keywords: TOEFL ITP, Academic exchange program, English proficiency

Abstract

This paper reports an analysis of a test called TOEFL ITP within an academic exchange program of Ministério da Educação (MEC). The purpose was to identify to what extent and how it tests English proficiency of candidates. The corpus is formed by a book entitled TOEFL ITP Official Handbook. The results indicate that the TOEFL ITP does not have a section designed to test candidate’s oral production. Besides that, the section called “Structure and Written Expression” in fact does not test written production in English. Thus, the TOEFL ITP does not test these two important skills in an academic context.

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Published
2017-12-12
How to Cite
Marcuzzo, P., & Azambuja, F. (2017). The TOEFL-ITP test within the Ciências sem Fronteiras Program . Revista Linguagem & Ensino, 20(2), 333-350. https://doi.org/10.15210/rle.v20i2.15254