Investigation on TOEIC score trends in Korea and its pedagogical implications

Many universities in Korea have implemented teaching TOEIC based courses in their core curriculums as a result of the increased popularity of the TOEIC test. With the assumption that reading and listening scores are inter-related with each other, a focus of this study is to find the distribution pat...

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Published in:Cogent education 2020-01, Vol.7 (1)
Main Authors: Park, Sunyoung, Kwak, Eun-Joo, Tak, Jin-young, Tate, Todd
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Core curriculum
Correlation
Educational research
English (Second Language)
english language teaching
Foreign Countries
Language Acquisition
Language Tests
Listening Comprehension
Reading Comprehension
Scores
Second Language Instruction
Second Language Learning
Students
teacher guideline
teaching method
Teaching Methods
TOEIC listening
TOEIC reading
TOEIC teaching
Trend Analysis
Universities
university general english program
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Summary:Many universities in Korea have implemented teaching TOEIC based courses in their core curriculums as a result of the increased popularity of the TOEIC test. With the assumption that reading and listening scores are inter-related with each other, a focus of this study is to find the distribution patterns of the reading comprehension (RC) and the listening comprehension (LC) scores with respect to the different levels of the students. More specifically, the present study examines the relationships at the different levels between the RC and the LC scores, the LC scores and the total scores, and the RC scores and the total scores. In order to assist the students with improving their current levels and their TOEIC test scores, determining the particular areas that need to be focused on within each score band was the purpose of the comparison. In this study, 11328 TOEIC test scores were analyzed, and four results are presented. First, during their initial stages of language acquisition, students who are having more difficulty with the RC would benefit from having this area supplemented. The next finding revealed the necessity to implement tailored instruction for the higher levels. After that, it was determined that focusing on the RC would be a worthwhile measure in order to assist the lower level students to increase their overall TOEIC scores. The final result revealed that when the students were grouped in larger score bands, both the RC and the LC should be taught.
ISSN:2331-186X
2331-186X
DOI:10.1080/2331186X.2020.1796557