The Education Division of the Taipei Economic and
Culture Office (TECO) in Houston will administer the 2017 Test of Chinese as a Foreign
Language (TOCFL) on Saturday, March 25,
2017 at the University of Houston –
Downtown 【 One Main Street, Suite
GSB311 (3F, Girard Street Building), Houston, TX 77002 / phone: 713-221-8027】.
The
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 levels of the TOCFL have 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 corresponds to level 3 of the TOCFL. The students could take
the TOCFL as a practice test for AP test preparation.
Examinees
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 the government and for studying in Taiwan.
- Qualifying for admission to 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. 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 1
to February 25, 2017. 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 02/28/2017. The
registration will be cancelled if the examinees fail to submit the registration
fee before 02/28/2017.
Required
documents and fee are as follows.
1.
Confirmation
form
2.
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 beforehand.
