The Education Division of the Taipei Economic and
Culture Office (TECO) in Houston will administer the 2020 Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language (TOCFL) on
Saturday 10:00AM,
March 28, 2020 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 who want to know
about their level of Chinese
proficiency. It 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 “Huayu Enrichment Scholarship” sponsored by the Ministry of
Education 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 7
to February 29, 2020. Please
register at the website: https://tocfl.sc-top.org.tw/. In order to complete the registration process, please print
out the confirmation form and
mail it along
with the registration fee to Education Division, TECO in Houston (11 Greenway
Plaza, Suite 2012, Houston, TX 77046) before 02/29/2020. The
registration will be canceled if the examinees fail to submit the registration
fee before 02/29/2020.
Required
documents and fees are as follows.
1.
Confirmation
form
2.
Registration
fee: $45
USD
Check only ( payable to
Education Division, TECO in Houston)
Please direct all questions to the Education Division of the Taipei Economic and
Cultural Office in Houston at 713.871.0851 or brownie.ch@mail.moe.gov.tw.
