TOEFL

Today, more and more people learn English for various purposes, either for career advancement as well as school.  More and more people realize that English is now used as an international language and is widely used through out the world. Once with a computer, learn computer well is equally important and all this will be very important for us to support professionalism in other fields. Even the business world increasingly demanding workers to be able to master both these skills. Less likely for someone to get a job if he is unable to speak English and do not know how to use computers and its application properly. Coupled with the coming era of globalization, in which more rapid flow of information from the outside and the increasing number of foreign investors come to open stores, factories or for other business transactions, the necessity to be able to master these skills.

The bottom line TOEFL test was especially useful for career advancement for promotion. Sure to be ideal for everyone if someone career skyrocketed with success. TOEFL stands for Test Of English as a Foreign Language. TOEFL is a standardized English language ability of a person in writing (de jure), which covers four aspects of mastery: Listening, Writing and Reading. TOEFL scoring system using the conversion of each correct answer. The highest TOEFL score one can achieve is 675. TOEFL has two general objectives are: Academic and General. In the same form, TOEFL certification recommendation could use for both. Academic tests are used for educational purposes, research or related academic activities abroad, or in Indonesia.

For post-graduate, usually a minimum value is 550. while for S1 is 500. General is generally used for the purpose of employment, promotion or job assignment. Many companies that install the English language standard employees by looking at TOEFL score - his. Generally, a minimum TOEFL score is 500 for a standard promoted. As far as I encountered, the range of TOEFL scores - average Indonesian people with minimal education level S1 is very volatile. There are even some who do not know what and for what it is TOEFL (they read: "tufl"). Not so with the decision-English majors in college. At least they know what is a TOEFL. However, TOEFL score of a student or graduate English majors does not guarantee high.

In some cases recruiment times, I found some applicants get the TOEFL score of 300, whereas in the proposal, the person concerned is an alumni of the ABA (Foreign Language Academy). While in general, fluctuations in the average TOEFL score - rating ranges from 300 to 600. Generally, people understand that language is English speaking, conversation, cas cis cus and so on. English cover four main skills: Listening (digestion word through hearing), Writing (digestion words through writing and grammar), reading (digestive meaning of a text language) and speaking (able to pronounce it). Speaking of language acquisition, it can not be removed from the mastery of four skills earlier, are perfect. However, many of them think, what matters is the ability to say it, even with a full-tolerance grammar and word choice are modest and the origin met.

Along with the times, even countries whose native language is not English, such as Japan, Korea, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc. require certain TOEFL score for prospective students, whether it came from within the country, especially if coming from overseas. In Indonesia, the TOEFL even be used also for the requirements for acceptance of new employees in government agencies, public and private companies, the new admissions requirements for the level of S2 and S3, scholarship submission requirements, both governmental and private. TOEFL myself have several times experienced improvements by the organizers, ETS. The forms of the TOEFL test has ever introduced to the public are: TOEFL Paper Based Test, TOEFL Computer Based Test, TOEFL Internet Based Test. Although officially, since the TOEFL Internet Based Test was introduced in the whole world, then this type may not apply anymore, but in fact until recently, TOEFL Paper Based Test still widely used in various institutions of higher education and for recruitment of employees in Indonesia.