Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Yamaguchi University
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Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Yamaguchi University Volume 38
published_at 1988-12
A Study on the Trend of College Students' English Proficiency Shown in Practice TOEFL (1979-1988)
TOEFL模擬テストにみられる大学生の英語力の動向
Fukuzawa Seiji
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As a way of offering the opportunity for the students to realize their levels of English, the Practice TOEFL has been given to English major students in Yamaguchi University as a placement test for the past ten years (1979-1988). The results obtained seem to show some trends concerning the characteristics of their English proficiency. The present study first compares the Japanese students' TOEFL scores with those of other nationalities, and then makes a brief study on the total and sectional scores in practice TOEFL by English major students, and finally tries to make a few suggestions for improving the TOEFL score, considering the characteristics and problems that Japanese learners of English have to cope with.
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