Sessions

TOEIC Speaking Tasks for Building Communicative Competence in the Classroom

Integrating TOEIC material in the classroom can be difficult due to varying goals, needs, expectations, and knowledge about the test. This workshop will give basic background about the TOEIC Speaking tasks and show teachers ways to adapt these tasks for use in their communicative classroom as classroom activities and assessment tasks. The presenter will draw on his experience both with ETS and in the classroom to share practical ideas that will give students TOEIC Speaking practice while not straying from the communicative activities that they already do in the classroom. Teachers will leave the workshop with ideas to create tasks that focus on pronunciation and prosody, basic grammar and vocabulary, synthesizing and responding to oral and visual information, and expressing and supporting ideas.