This course is a combination reading and discussion course suitable for students with a TOEFL Paper-Based Test score between 460 and 524. Reading for the TOEIC is designed for students studying at the TOEIC 600-750 level.
Developing the skills necessary for the TOEIC can be a trying experience for test-takers, so this course has been designed to provide some strategies to develop students’ higher-order thinking skills and stay motivated. Reading for the TOEIC will go over ways for students to improve their TOEIC score by helping them to think through the test.
A heavy emphasis is placed on strategies for learning vocabulary which will help with depth of understanding, much of which is done through sharing connections with other students. There is ample opportunity for a learning exercise to become an opportunity for social interaction and further understanding of a vocabulary item through others’ experiences.
Strategies for reading are introduced in this course to help with the reading sections of a test. Students will be encouraged to:
- scan for information type questions and judge which words are more important for answering questions
- understand the four major types of reading comprehension questions, recognize questions that ask for specific information such as when, where, who, why, and how
- learn about questions that ask for meaning of a word or a synonym/antonym of a given term
- understand inference questions that require students to take a leap of understanding from the information given in the text to the answer asked for in the comprehension question
- practice answering questions that ask for what is not in the text.