TOEFL Listening Course
Sets of either five or six questions follow one-time-only hearings of either conversations or lectures, in both cases involving academic or campus-related contents. The content of the TOEFL Listening lecture material reflects that presented in freshman-level college courses, and is drawn from four major sources:
- the arts (featuring topics taken from fields such as architecture, industrial design, city planning, music history, folk art, and photography);
- life science (featuring topics taken from fields such as public health, biochemistry, animal behavior, nutrition, medical techniques, and the physiology of sense organs);
- physical science (featuring topics taken from fields such as oceanography, particle physics, astronomy, environmental policy, inorganic chemistry, and computer science); and
- social science (featuring topics taken from fields such as anthropology, early writing systems, historical linguistics, child development, education, and modern history).
(The TOEFL Reading section also draws its material from these four sources.)
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In the recording of the TOEFL Listening lectures and conversations, an attempt has been made to imitate “real-life” academic-environment use of language, with the inclusion of false starts, misspeaks with self-corrections, pauses, hesitations, and repetitions.
During the Listening section of the TOEFL exam, note-taking is allowed as in all other sections of the examination.
In addition to traditional multiple-choice questions, the TOEFL Listening Section includes the following types of questions:
- multiple-choice questions with more than one answer (for example, two answers out of four or more choices);
- ordering events or steps in a process;
- matching objects or text to categories in a table.
These different question formats are aimed at examining the critical listening skills required in the academic milieu, i.e., not only gathering the gist of what is said, in terms of both content and purpose, but also identifying the speaker’s stance and the organizational structure used by the speaker to present the material.
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