Rhetoric, Logic, and Becoming Eligible for Overseas Study

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Increasing interest in long-term overseas study among students, faculty, and administrators at universities in Japan has brought attention to test preparation instruction techniques and test performance because of the TOEFL, which is required of overseas students of native language groups other than English by North American post-secondary host institutions. One aim of this investigation was to determine if programs with test preparation courses designed for this test significantly benefited scores. The other purpose was to find out whether test preparation instruction that emphasized the conventions of English academic rhetoric and logical test-taking techniques was more effective than test preparation instruction based principally on conventional commercial materials that had an evenly distributed emphasis among the four sections of the test, the listening, structure, reading, and writing sections. This research was conducted over a two-year period at a university in Japan. The results indicated that test preparation courses significantly enhance scores when implemented in addition to previous General English courses, and that test preparation courses with emphases on rhetoric and logic are more effective than conventional test preparation courses that do not devote proportionally more time and emphasis to these two factors.
社団法人大学英語教育学会の論文
2005-10-27