Step Up to the TOEFL® iBT is a series of skills-based textbooks that helps low-intermediate and intermediate students prepare to take a step up toward success on the TOEFL®. These are not a test-preparation books: instead, the books teach some of the fundamental vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation skills necessary for the test.
Although the TOEFL® does not directly score vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation, weaknesses in these areas will severely impair students’ performance on all areas of the test. Therefore, every point covered in Step Up to the TOEFL® iBT will benefit test-takers on one or more sections of the test.
Each of the eight units addresses one rhetorical function and includes:
• Learning Targets and their relevance to the four sections of the test
• Getting Started questions to activate prior knowledge
• two Vocabulary You Need topics that introduce a range of key words used to
accomplish the unit function
• a Vocabulary Skill to build learner autonomy in vocabulary acquisition
• two Grammar You Can Use topics that strengthen students’ receptive and
productive language
• samples of (near) test-level use of the grammar from The Michigan Guide to
English for Academic Success and Better TOEFL® Test Scores and A Michigan Guide: Step Up to the TOEFL® iBT for Intermediate Students
