TOEFL IBT SPEAKING SECTION

TOEFL iBT Speaking Section

in TOEFL iBT comes right after the 10-minute break. TOEFL iBT Speaking section is intended to measure test takers' ability to speak about a variety of topics. Each question should be answered as completely as possible within the given time. In total, the section consists of six questions divided into two types - independent speaking tasks (question 1 and 2) and integrated speaking tasks (questions 3, 4, 5 and 6).
In academic settings students must be able to:

Give adequate responses to questions
Take part in academic discussions with other students or professors
Participate in everyday conversations
Express their opinion about discussed subjects
Summarize and orally reproduce information read in textbooks or listened to in the classroom
Communicate with university officials in libraries, sport centers, housing office, bookstore and etc.

TOEFL iBT Academic Speaking section tests students' ability to speak effectively under abovementioned criteria.

TOEFL iBT Speaking Section Organization

TOEFL iBT Speaking Section Organization
The speaking section is approximately 20 minutes long and includes six questions. During all the section, test takers are allowed to take notes on a piece of paper and use their notes when speaking. For each question students are given short time to prepare and organize their responses. Test takers are required to wear headphones in order to receive instructions, listen to the questions and be isolated from listening to the others' responses. Test takers provide responses orally, speaking into a digital microphone. Responses are not kept on the computer, but the records are immediately sent to the ETS's Online Scoring Network.

Independent speaking tasks
Question 1 and question 2 ask test takers to speak about familiar topics. Students are expected to provide an answer based on their own ideas, opinions and experience. The answers should be clear and coherent. After hearing the questions students are given 15 seconds to prepare their responses and 45 seconds to speak.
Preparation time: 15 seconds
Response time: 45 seconds

Integrated speaking tasks

(Read/Listen/Speak) Questions 3 and 4 ask students to read a short passage first, listen to a conversation or part of a lecture related to the passage they have read and speak in response to a question. Information from both reading text and listening should be combined into the response. Test takers have to use reasons and examples to support their answer. For reading the passage, test takers are allotted 45 seconds. They also have 30 seconds to prepare their response to the question and 60 seconds to speak.

Reading time: 45 seconds
Preparation time: 30 seconds
Response time: 60 seconds

(Listen/Speak) In questions 5 and 6 students will first listen to part of a conversation or lecture. Further, they will be given the question and 20 seconds to prepare their response. The speaking time for those questions is set at 60 seconds.

Preparation time: 20 seconds
Response time: 60 seconds

REMEMBER

Note-taking is allowed during all sections in TOEFL iBT. Notes could be very helpful especially for the speaking section.
Speak clearly and coherently. Raters should be able to understand you and follow your thought.
Provide answers that are right to the question. Do not speak about unrelated topics. Try to stick to the main point of the question.
Support your answers with details, reasoning and examples based on your ideas, experience (for the independent tasks) or based on the information given in the passages or conversations/lectures (for the integrated tasks).

TOEFL - CRACKING THE SPEAKING SECTION

Now, that you've gone over the basics principles, you are ready to crack the TOEFL speaking section. To do so, do the following:
1. Learn the appropriate template for each task, and use it for your response.
2. Learn the appropriate vocabulary for each task. These wordswill be covered in our blog page, so follow us for updates.
3.Listen to spoken English as often as possible.There's no better way to improve your speaking ability.