2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses English language courses
TOEFL Seminar 14 1
- Academic unit or major
- English language courses
- Instructor(s)
- Hugh Barry Ziani De Ferranti
- Class Format
- Exercise (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 7-8 Wed
- Class
- 1
- Course Code
- LAE.E452
- Number of credits
- 010
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course is aimed at students pursuing a long-term exchange. Students will learn English skills necessary for a long-term exchange at the graduate level (so that they work toward being capable of listening to contents at the general education course level of bachelor students, take notes, make presentations in seminars, and express their own opinions), and learn vocabulary and English skills to explain specialized content without difficulty. TOEFL Seminar 14 focusses on speaking skills for independent questions and integrated skills speaking questions.
Course description and aims
Understand each TOEFL question, and be able to follow the outline of the material heard and read. Be able to clearly explain orally not just the main points of the material, but also its overall outline. Be able to clearly answer questions from other students in the classroom.
Keywords
TOEFL Study-abroad, Communication, Four skills in English
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Attendance is taken at each class. The course is built around TOEFL-modelled listening and speaking activities (including Integrated skills activities that also involve reading) in a textbook and various Toefl resource sites.
(Note: Syllabus is subject to change based on the levels, needs, and actual number of students in the class.) If there are many students wishing to enroll, there may be a limit on the number of students. Students wishing to enroll must attend the first class. Additionally, do not purchase any text or reference book until enrollment in the class has been confirmed during the first class.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction to Course and a short diagnostic test Review of the current Toefl test speaking questions and skills. | Identify course aims. Acquire speaking skills for the TOEFL. |
| Class 2 | Speaking Question 1 (option or preference independent question) | Acquire speaking skills for the TOEFL. Longman pages 237-248 and other practice exercises |
| Class 3 | Integrated reading, listening and speaking: campus-related speaking Question 2 | Acquire speaking skills for the TOEFL. Longman pages 248-265. |
| Class 4 | 復習と中間テスト（スピーキング） Review and mid-Quarter short speaking test | Demonstrate knowledge of class materials. Demonstrate knowledge of materials from Speaking Questions 1 through 3. |
| Class 5 | Integrated reading, listening and speaking: academic-setting speaking Question 3 | Acquire speaking skills for the TOEFL. Longman pages 266-283 |
| Class 6 | Speaking Question 4: summary of a lecture excerpt | Acquire speaking skills for the TOEFL. Longman pages 299-317 |
| Class 7 | まとめとスピーキング試験 Review and Speaking test | Consolidation, application, and integration of skills, materials, and key concepts. Demonstrate knowledge of class materials. Demonstrate knowledge of materials from Speaking Questions 1 through 5. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards for each class.
Textbook(s)
While not a requirement, it is recommended that students obtain a copy of Longman Preparation Course for the TOEFLiBT Test. 3rd Edition (see further below, Reference Books), either by borrowing one from Foreign Languages or else buying one. Note that it is not available at the university coop. For students without the book, photocopies of class materials can be provided.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Much of the explanatory material and some class exercises will be from pages of the following:
Longman Preparation Course for the TOEFLiBT Test. 3rd Edition.
Deborah Phillips Pearson Education 2015. ISBN 10:0-13-324802-X
Additional reading materials and handouts will be distributed in class or shown on Science Tokyo LMS.
Evaluation methods and criteria
class participation 30%
tests 70% (Week 4 test 30%, Week 7 test 40%)
Related courses
- LAE.E451 ： TOEFL Seminar 13
Prerequisites
none
Other
It is recommended that students take this course in sequence with TOEFL Seminar 13.
Attendance at the first class is compulsory for students planning to take this course.