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The Complete TOEFL Speaking & Writing Roadmap.
Every 2026 rubric change, the new task formats, the scoring engines that read your work, and the exact drills to fix the most common weaknesses. Built from 30 years of teaching English at a California public university.
The Complete TOEFL Speaking & Writing Roadmap
By Michael Buckhoff
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- The 2026 rubric changes, side by side. What "consistent facility" actually means in scoring practice, and how it differs from the old "occasional errors acceptable" standard.
- Every Speaking and Writing task in the new format. Listen and Repeat, Take an Interview, Build a Sentence, Email, Online Academic Discussion.
- How SpeechRater and e-rater grade your work. The two AI scoring engines, what they reward, what they penalize, and how to write and speak so both score you high.
- Daily drills, by skill. Specific exercises for fluency, pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and topic development. Counted, not vague.
- Templates for Email and Academic Discussion. Sentence patterns that hit the rubric without sounding canned.
- Common student mistakes, ranked by point cost. Fix the highest-cost mistakes first.
This PDF is free because the next step costs nothing too. After you read it, you can send me a sample and I will grade it under the 2026 rubric. Free for the first sample, no commitment.
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