The prehistory of TOEFL

Bernard Spolsky

doi:10.1177/026553229000700107

The prehistory of TOEFL

Bernard Spolsky

Department of English Literature and Linguistics

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This article explores the origins of the TOEFL, with its distinctive charac teristics, in a 1961 conference, and seeks thereby to gain an understanding of how developments in language testing theory - and perhaps theory in general - are blended with the requirements and possibilities of real-life implementation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	98-118
Number of pages	21
Journal	Language Testing
Volume	7
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/026553229000700107
State	Published - Jun 1990

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