Under the circumstance of globalization, the excellent acquisition of English has become more and more crucial. This study analyzes one of the most widely accepted international English tests to provide with beneficial suggestions for the improvement for the college English teaching in China. This paper firstly introduces the development of the language testing in the world and focuses on the illustration of the current most frequently adopted test model---the communicative language testing. Then, this study analyzes the communicative language testing the IBT TOEFL based on the theory of communicative language testing theory from the perspectives of the goal, the contents and the types of the questions of the IBT TOEFL. At last, this paper discusses the communicative language testing features and concepts reflected in the IBT TOEFL and the enlightenments and implications concluded from the IBT TOEFL for improvement of college English teaching.

Simo Jia. The Discussion of the College English Teaching Based on the Analysis of Toefl. Frontiers in Educational Research (2020) Vol. 3 Issue 4: 41-46. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2020.030410.

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