English Testing for secondary school students
An article appeared in the Korea Times yesterday that illustrates the high profile and potentially controversial nature of English testing in South Korea. The article deals with an ETS Korea scholarship program that selected eight high school students as “ETS Ambassadors.”
The article notes that the ETS promotion comes at a time when foreign language high schools in Korea have dropped TOEFL requirements. I might add that the general context for this article involves the important question of whether or not TOEFL is an appropriate test for middle school and high school students, many of whom have been taking it in recent years, for lack of an alternative.