Laboratorio de Certificación C1: Grupo i71

Maestra: Nallely Garza Rodríguez

TOEFL iBT
Test Writing Section
Members on Team 4:
Guillermo Mikael Muñoz Miramontes,
Genaro Fernández Leija,
Devanie Marisol Martínez Jiménez,
Devany Damaris Jaquez Torres,
Guadalupe Jazmín Muñoz Pinal,
Index
1. Introduction

2. Writing Tests

3. Writing Integrated

4. Writing for Academic Discussion

5. Examples of writing tests

6. Scoring criteria

7. Performance descriptors

8. Tips and strategies

 Introduction
The TOEFL iBT test Writing section
measures your ability to write in English
in an academic setting, and to present
your ideas in a clear, well-organized way.

The writing tasks measure:

English proficiency
Deep knowledge on a topic.
Each essay is a first draft.
High score / some errors.
 Writing Tests
Test time: It takes about 29 minutes

There are two writing tasks.

Integrated writing task (20 minutes) — read

a passage and listen to a lecture, then write
in a response.

Writing for an Academic Discussion task

(10 minutes) — state and support an
opinion in an online classroom discussion.
Writing Integrated
1. How is the question structured?
Read a passage about a topic.
Listen to a short lecture (only once).
The reading passage will reappear,
along with the question.
2. How to approach the question?
Summarize the points made in the lecture.
Explain how they relate to the reading.
Make sure you answer the question.

3. Raters evaluation
Accurate development
Organization
Language use
Writing for Academic
Discussion
-A good answer must take at least 100 words

-There is no correct answer

-The opinion response, must contribute to the discussion,

clear, coherent, must have reasons and examples

Important Aspects
First, relevant and clearly developed ideas.

Second, variety in the use of language.

The third criterion is a correct use of language.

TOEFL iBT Writing Integrated Sample
https://studylib.net/doc/18
079533/toefl%C2%AE-ibt-
writing-sample-responses

TOEFL iBT Writing for Academic Discussion Sample

https://studylib.net/doc/26290633/
toefl-writing-academic-discussion-
question-and-sample-answe...
Writing Integrated task: Scoring criteria
Score 5

A response at this level successfully

selects the important information from
the lecture and coherently and
accurately presents this information in
relation to the relevant information
presented in the reading. The response
is well organized, and occasional
language errors that are present do not
result in inaccurate or imprecise
presentation of content or connections.
Writing for Academic Discussion task:
Scoring Criteria
A fully successful response Score 5
The response is a relevant and very clearly expressed contribution to the online
discussion, and it demonstrates consistent facility in the use of language.

A typical response displays the following:

• Relevant and well-elaborated explanations, exemplifications, and/or details

• Effective use of a variety of syntactic structures and precise, idiomatic word
choice
• Almost no lexical or grammatical errors other than those expected from a
competent writer writing under timed conditions
(e.g., common typos or common misspellings or substitutions like there/their)
 Performance descriptors
For the Writing Section:
Advanced
Score range 24–30
CEFR Level C1
■ Produce clear, well-developed,
and well-organized text.
■ Express an opinion on a
controversial issue, and support
that opinion with appropriate
details and explanations in
writing, demonstrating variety and
range of vocabulary and
grammatical structures.
■ Select important information
from multiple sources, integrate it,
and present it coherently and
clearly in writing.
High-
Intermediate
Score range 17–23
CEFR Level B2
Produce summaries of multiple
sources that include most of the main
ideas.
Express an opinion on an issue
clearly; some ideas and explanations
may not be fully developed and lapses
in cohesion may at times affect a clear
progression of ideas.
Write with some degree of facility;
grammatical mistakes or
vague/incorrect uses of words may
make the writing difficult to follow in
some places.
 Performance descriptors
For the Writing Section:
Low-
Intermediate
Score range 13–16
CEFR Level B1
Produce a simple text that
expresses some ideas on an issue,
but the development of ideas is
limited because of insufficient or
inappropriate details and
explanations
Summarize some relevant
information from multiple sources,
but important ideas from the
sources are omitted or
significantly misrepresented
Basic Below Basic
Score range 7–12
CEFR Level A2 Score range 0–6
Produce some text that is related to Test takers with a Writing
the topic, but with little detail section score below 7 have
and/or lack of organization.
not yet demonstrated
Convey some information from the
sources or some ideas on an issue,
proficiency at the Basic
but grammatical errors, unclear level
expressions,
and/or poor sentence structure make
their writing difficult to comprehend.
Tips and strategies
Writing Integrated task:

1. Read, then listen. 2. Time Managment

4. DO NOT USES 3. Take good notes.
QUOTES!
5. Use lots of
transitional words
and phrases.
Tips and strategies
Writing for Academic Discussion task:

Be sure to add to the Use some simple verb

1. 2.
discussion. tenses
3. Try to include
4. Take the time to edit
multiple sentences
your work!
with more than one
clause
5. Get yourself some
proper feedback!
 References
ETS. (s/f). TOEFL iBT Writing section. Ets.org. Recuperado el 28 de agosto de 2023, de
https://www.ets.org/toefl/test-takers/ibt/about/content/writing.html

ETS. (2019). Writing integrated tasks transcript. Ets.org. https://www.ets.org/toefl/test-

takers/ibt/transcript/writing-integrated.html

ETS. (2021). Performance descriptors for the TOEFL iBT test.

https://www.ets.org/pdfs/toefl/toefl-ibt-performance-descriptors.pdf

ETS. (2023a). TOEFL iBT ® writing rubrics. https://www.ets.org/pdfs/toefl/toefl-ibt-writing-

rubrics.pdf

ETS. (2023b). Writing for an Academic Discussion task transcript. Ets.org.

https://www.ets.org/toefl/transcript/writing-for-an-academic-discussion-task.html

Josh. (2023). Ten awesome tips for the writing section of the TOEFL® Test. TST Prep.
https://tstprep.com/articles/toefl/ten-awesome-tips-for-the-writing-section-of-the-toefl-
test/