Semester: Spring 2005
Classes: M W F 10:00-10:50 AM, Room 1
Professor: Jerry Hurley
Office hours: T R 12:30-13:30
Credit Hours: 1
Prerequisite: TOEFL 500

Course Text: Packet

Course Objectives: The objective of the course is to focus on the necessary grammar, listening and reading skills in order to pass the three sections of the TOEFL. TOEFL taking strategies are an integral part of the course.

Course Description: This course examines the techniques needed to score 530 or more points on the TOEFL. All the sample tests used in class are from Educational Testing Service and the timed exercises are from real exams.

Grading Policy: Since this is a Pass/Fail course, the passing grade is a 530 composite score on the institutional TOEFL exam. However, attendance and class participation are of major importance. More than three unexcused absences due to missing class or an accumulation of late arrivals may result in an automatic “No Pass”. The same “No Pass” policy holds true for academic dishonesty, which includes any dishonest behavior carried out when submitting for academic evaluation assignments and exams required for validation of the student’s learning.

Week 1

Explanation of TOEFL and scoring system.
Complete, correct, score and identify errors on Sections 1, 2 and 3 of the TOEFL.

Week 2

TOEFL Sample Test 1
10 point checklist of structure errors in Section 2.
Subject-verb exercises and verb agreement, tense and form exercises.

Week 3

TOEFL Sample Test 1 and Sample Test 2.
Subordinate adjective and adverb clause exercises.

Week 4

TOEFL Sample Test 2 and Sample Test 3.
Recognize correct completions of noun and subordinate clauses.
Recognize missing elements from simple and complex sentences.

Week 5

TOEFL Sample Test 3.
Recognize correct completions of all clauses.
Structure errors related to verbals exercises.

Week 6

TOEFL Sample Test 4.
Structure errors related to pronoun form, reference and agreement.

Week 7

Sample TOEFL Test 4 and Sample Test 5.
Structure errors related to wrong word form.
Structure errors related to comparative and superlative word forms.

Week 8

Sample Test 5 and and Sample Test 6.
Structure errors related to word order of subject and verb.

Week 9

Sample Test 6 and Sample Test 7.
Structure errors related to parallel structure.

Week 10

Sample Test 7
Structure errors related to unnecessary repetition.

Week 11
Sample Test 8 and Sample Test 9.
Structure errors related to verb usage

Week 12

Sample Test 9
Review of the ten types of structure errors.

April 22
Final Exam