Impact on teachers. When it comes to TOEFL’s impact on teachers, it is positive by and large. Wall and Horak (2006) note that there is a hope that TOEFL will lead to a more communicative approach to teaching and that preparation classes would pay more attention to academic tasks and language (as cited in Wall & Horak, 2008). In the past, most of the teachers conducted writing classes that focused on language structure and discrete grammatical items. There was no integrated skills work. In order to prepare students for