The Education Division of the Taipei Economic and
Culture Office (TECO) in Houston will administer the 2015 Test of Chinese as a Foreign
Language (TOCFL) on Saturday, March 28,
2015 at University of Houston – Downtown ( 2F, Shea
Street Building, 320 N Main Street, Houston,
TX 77002 / phone: 713-221-8027).
TOCFL is intended for those that wish to
measure their Chinese proficiency, and
is available in both traditional and
simplified character versions. Since
2014, the level of the TOCFL has been reformed in order to correspond to the CEFR (Common
European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment).
The new version of the TOCFL has three proficiency bands: Band A, Band B, and
Band C. Each of the bands has two levels.
According
to the AP Course Description, “Course work provides students with opportunities
to perform Intermediate- to Advanced-level tasks, and students are expected to
achieve proficiencies throughout, and sometimes beyond, the Intermediate range,
as described in the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
(ACTFL) Proficiency Guidelines.” Therefore, if the students want to pass the AP
test, they have to reach the intermediate level of the ACTFL Proficiency
Guidelines, which is corresponding to the level 3 of TOCFL. The students could
take TOCFL as a practice test for the AP test preparation.
Examinee who pass the test will receive a Chinese
Proficiency Certificate as
a credential for the followings:
* Becoming eligible for the “Taiwan
Scholarship” and “Ministry of Education Huayu Enrichment Scholarship” sponsored
by government for studying in Taiwan.
* Qualifying for admission to the
academic programs at colleges or universities in Taiwan.
* Serving as a job-required proof of Chinese language
proficiency for individuals who wish to obtain Chinese-inclusive, bilingual
employment globally .
* Providing an incentive to those who are interested in
learning Chinese
TOCFL will be administered via the Internet this
year. There are two sections (listening and reading) which take a total of
about two hours to complete. Please see http://www.sc-top.org.tw for the
mock-test.
Registration is accepted from February 9
to February 28, 2015. Please
register at the website: https://usa.sc-top.org.tw/. In order to complete the registration process, please print
out the registration form and
mail it along
with the registration fee to Education Division, TECO in Houston (11 Greenway
Plaza, Suite 2012, Houston, TX 77046) before 2015/03/02.
The registration will be cancelled if the examinees fail to submit the registration
fee before 2015/03/02.
Required
documents and fee are as follows.
1.
Confirmation
form
3.
Registration
fee: Check only ( payable to Education Division, TECO in Houston)
Traditional Character: 30
USD
Simplified Character: 40 USD
If any accredited organizations or Chinese schools are
willing to
administer a group test,
please contact the Education
Division of the Taipei Economic and Culture Office in Houston.
Please direct all questions to the Education Division of the
Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Houston at 713.871.0851 or
houcul@houstoncul.org.
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The
proficiency levels of TOCFL in corresponding relationship with CEFR and ACTFL
Proficiency Guidelines.
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