Grow your students’ potential with the TOEFL Junior … · 2019. 9. 5. · The TOEFL Junior® Comprehensive test, intended for students ages 11+, is an accurate and reliable measure

Setting the right foundation for your students’ English-language journey can make all the difference. That’s why it’s important to have well-designed and objective measures that can help you guide your students to build a future of opportunities.

The TOEFL Junior® Comprehensive test, intended for students ages 11+, is an accurate and reliable measure of your students’ communicative competence in English. Based on the rich heritage of the TOEFL® test, the TOEFL Junior Comprehensive test helps you pinpoint your students’ strengths and challenges.

Like all tests in the TOEFL Family of Assessments, the TOEFL Junior Comprehensive test is based on solid research to ensure fairness, validity and reliability, and reflect best practices in language testing.

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• Determine whether your students have sufficient communicative English skills to succeed in a classroom that uses English for instruction

• Place students in English-language programs so they are matched with level-appropriate instruction

• Monitor progress over time to gauge students’ learning and proficiency

• Use score reports and performance feedback to tailor English instruction and guide conversations with parents

• Advise students on appropriate book selections based on Lexile® measures, from MetaMetrics®, to improve their reading proficiency www.lexile.com/toefljunior

• Map student achievement to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for international benchmarking

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Grow your students’ potential with the TOEFL Junior® Comprehensive test.

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* The CEFR Levels provided are context dependent. They are based on the language abilities of middle school students and lower-level high school students.

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The TOEFL Junior Comprehensive Test

For a complete look at a student’s English-language ability, the TOEFL Junior Comprehensive test, administered via computer, measures all four skills needed to communicate successfully in English.

TOEFL Junior Comprehensive and CEFR Levels*The table below shows the TOEFL Junior Comprehensive overall score levels, overall performance descriptors and CEFR profiles.

Overall Score Level

Overall Performance Descriptor CEFR Profile

These descriptors represent performance in middle schools which use English for instruction. A typical student at this level:

A typical student at this level achieved these section-level CEFR scores:

6 Excellent

Consistently demonstrates the skills needed to communicate successfully at a high level in complex interactions and while using complex materials.

B2 for all sections (Reading, Listening, Speaking and Writing)

5 Advanced

Often demonstrates the skills needed to communicate successfully at a high level in complex interactions and while using complex materials.

B1 or B2 for Reading and Listening; B1 for Speaking and Writing

4 Competent

Demonstrates the skills needed to communicate successfully in some complex situations and in most simple interactions and while using basic materials.

B1 for Reading and Listening; B1 or A2 for Speaking and Writing

3 Achieving

Usually demonstrates the skills needed to communicate successfully in simple interactions and while using basic materials.

A2 or B1 for Listening; A2 for Reading, Speaking and Writing

2 Developing

Occasionally demonstrates the skills needed to communicate successfully in simple interactions and while using basic materials.

A2 for Reading and Listening; below A2 for Speaking and Writing

1 Beginning

Demonstrates some basic language skills but needs to further develop those skills in order to communicate successfully.

Below A2 for all sections (Reading, Listening, Speaking and Writing)

Section Number of Items Scale Scores Testing Time

Reading Comprehension 36 140–160 41 min.

Listening Comprehension 36 140–160 36 min.

Speaking 4 0–16 18 min.

Writing 4 0–16 39 min.

Total 80 2 hrs. 14 min.