TOEFL iBT Listening Overview. 2. Language Level. More informal language than in Reading section based on speech samples from North American colleges and universities Easier than Reading section lectures: 8 th grade difficulty level conversations: 4 th or 5 th grade difficulty level - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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2. Language Level2. Language Level• More informal language than in Reading section
based on speech samples from North American colleges and universities
• Easier than Reading section lectures: 8th grade difficulty level conversations: 4th or 5th grade difficulty level
• Lectures more difficult than conversations because of academic
content
3. Types of Listening Passages3. Types of Listening Passages• Lectures
professor speaks all or most of the time
• Classroom discussions professor and students discuss an academic topic
• Conversations office hours with a student visit to a professor service encounters with support staff
• Taking notes is allowed and encouraged.
4. Lecture Visuals4. Lecture Visuals• Screen with course name• Context visual: professor in classwith students • Types of graphic screens
content image: explains contentwith photograph or illustration blackboard image with key terminology
5. Conversation Visuals5. Conversation Visuals• Context visual sets the scene.• Visual appears when narrator introduces the
conversation.
6. Question Sets6. Question Sets• Each set
two lectures and one conversation each set of passages has 17 questions
• Time 10 minutes to answer 17 questions• Lecture questions are more difficult than
conversation questions. four minutes for questions on each lecture and two minutes
for the conversation questions• Question order usually follows order of information
in passage.
7. Listening Toolbar7. Listening Toolbar• NEXT to see the next question.• OK to confirm the answer.
After clicking OK, you cannot change your answer.
• VOLUME to increase or decrease volume.
8. Multiple Choice Questions8. Multiple Choice Questions• Most have four choices and one correct answer• Gist: purpose for a conversation• Inference: draw conclusion from stated facts• Detail: main supporting details may have two or three correct answers if two correct answers, then four answer choices; if three correct
answers, then five answer choices.
• Organization: underlying organization of lecture or relationships between two parts
9. Connecting Content Questions9. Connecting Content Questions• Drag and drop answer choices to the correct category.• Place checkmarks in the correct boxes.