Abstract
This research is a descriptive research by nature which tries to demonstrate various impacts to diverse communities. It gathers several important findings from previous research and draw a comprehensive outlook on how the TOEFL test has influenced the decision makers, teachers, students and outer community themselves. It is found that there has been a significant impact as the TOEFL test is administered as a test instrument worldwide. These include positive and negative impacts. For instance, the test has demanded schools to include teaching TOEFL preparation as an integrative part of syllabus. Still, students are forced to learn English intensively, but they are more inclined to attend the TOEFL class rather than regular classes. The research also shows that students prefer studying American English dialect since it is found in the test content. In wider community, the test opens job opportunities for many people especially publication industries and English private courses. However, the test also contributes to the inequality of educational opportunity between wealth and poor families.
Highlights
A language testing instrument is used to measure the language ability of a particular person (Fulcher & Davidson, 2007)
The positive impact is seen as those impacts that can improve the pedagogical teaching in a language classroom and benefit the society, while the negative consequences are those that undermine the teaching and learning activities in achieving the goal of language education and create a social problem among the community
Spratt (2005) identifies that teaching method and students’ learning are two of several aspects of language classroom that are affected by an adoption of a test.Anderson and Wall (1993, as cited in Anderson & Hamp-Lyons, 1996) in their Washback Hypothesis posit that a test will influence teaching and learning, with more specific influences to what and how teachers teach and what and how students learn
Summary
A language testing instrument is used to measure the language ability of a particular person (Fulcher & Davidson, 2007). While a test can give us useful information and a clear picture about a particular test taker, it is widely believed that it has various impacts as a result of its introduction. These consequences range from internal and external impacts. The former is the impact that affects the individual test takers and teaching-learning activities in the classrooms and the latter is the impact on a wider scale of community involving industries and business. The positive impact is seen as those impacts that can improve the pedagogical teaching in a language classroom and benefit the society, while the negative consequences are those that undermine the teaching and learning activities in achieving the goal of language education and create a social problem among the community
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