What are some common mistakes people make in the TOEFL listening test? How to fix it?

Updated on educate 2024-02-28
4 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    This question is very general, and the problem of listening is nothing more than not being able to understand words, speaking too fast, etc.

    For these questions, you can go to the 100 TOEFL question bank** () to see more, many netizens and teachers have shared a lot of TOEFL listening content there.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    The detailed questions in the TOEFL Listening and Reading test require test takers to understand and find out the specific information of the recording in a short period of time. If you can understand but don't do these kinds of questions correctly, there may be one of the following reasons: Insufficient ear training.

    Pure listening skills are only the basis for understanding audio recordings, while practical exams require quick processing of information and answering questions. Therefore, while improving reading, listening, and speaking, it is necessary to strengthen TOEFL listening practice and master more language expressions in different scenarios. Lack of vocabulary.

    Detail questions usually contain a lot of specific terms or language points, and if you don't know or review these words beforehand, it can be difficult to accurately grasp them accurately on the spot. It is recommended to memorize vocabulary more often, and practice mock exams to improve vocabulary application skills in complex contexts. Careful examination of the topic is insufficient.

    Although the TOEFL listening test has a tight schedule, it is still necessary to review the questions carefully before answering the questions, understand the questions quickly, and mark keywords or questions so that you can quickly get the necessary information when listening to the recording. Once you miss the question or rush to answer, you may carelessly pick up the sesame seeds and lose the watermelon. Stress has a big effect.

    Some candidates will have problems such as difficulty concentrating and being easily distracted due to excessive pressure during the formal exam. It is recommended to take more mock exams or do some relaxation exercises to relieve tension within the scope of your own conditions. To sum up, the TOEFL listening details may be answered incorrectly because it involves many aspects such as ear training and vocabulary storage.

    These problems can be solved gradually by studying in a more targeted manner, and improving the seriousness of examination and the ability to cope with pressure in the examination room.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    Because there are always a lot of distractions in the question, it makes you feel that the person who wrote the question just wants you to choose this answer. The most important thing is to pay too much attention to the integrity of the notes. If you can't remember the test center, it is recommended that you listen more carefully.

    1. The ability to be cultivated is to hear a point and know what to ask, and to listen to the silver point: transitions, cause and effect, analogies, examples of teaching tools and why he mentioned this thing, rereading, comparison between ancient and modern, etc.

    Second, when we prepare for the TOEFL test, we must pay special attention to one point, that is, how we look at TOEFL listening, or when we face TOEFL listening, what kind of appearance it presents in our hearts actually determines how we treat it.

    3. TOEFL listening, 70% to 80% of the test questions are all about details, and only about 20% to 30% of the test questions are on the test topic, or summary. I feel like I understand a lot, 70 to 80 percent of it, but in reality, the TOEFL test doesn't care if you understand the topic or not, because it's so easy to understand the topic.

    5. When preparing for TOEFL listening, there are many schools on the market, such as keyword stream, structure stream, note stream, test point word stream, and **test center stream. In fact, no matter how these schools change and how they are interpreted, in essence, they actually have a very important default, which is to greatly cater to the lazy psychology of test takers, and expect to solve the TOEFL test through opportunistic or technical methods without improving any of their own English skills.

    6. In the usual review, you should practice TOEFL listening more and correct your pronunciation and intonation, and try to imitate the TOEFL standard pronunciation, so as to achieve the purpose of practicing TOEFL listening.

    7. Practice the sensitivity of the topic. Mainly for the academic jokes in the TOEFL test, you can listen to the discovery program, pay attention to listening, not watching, don't be attracted by the picture and understand the content through subtitles, be sure to listen completely.

    8. Take notes. The TOEFL test is very long, and it is generally difficult to memorize it completely in the case of tight time, so be sure to practice shorthand skills and insist on taking notes no matter what listening material you listen to.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    [Ignore the beginning of the article].

    When the audio first starts playing, candidates often miss the beginning of the passage due to nervousness or lack of concentration, and the answer to the main question can be found at the beginning of the passage. So starting with the narrator, we have to concentrate.

    Entangled in words you don't know].

    As soon as the candidate hears a word he doesn't recognize, he immediately stops listening to the following words and keeps dwelling on the word he just heard. As a result, the explanations later in the text were not heard, or more important test points were missed. Therefore, during the exam, we should try not to think about the words and sentences that we don't understand, if they are important, they will be explained below, and if they are not, we don't have to listen to everything clearly.

    Doesn't read the question or choose carefully].

    There are often candidates who say that they have understood the article and the test points have been recorded in the notes, why do they still get a lot of questions wrong When analyzing the wrong questions, it was found that many of the contents were misunderstood in the question stem, or the meaning of the options, especially the confusion of the referents of some of the more confusing pronouns in the options, which led to the fact that they clearly heard the test center, but they still chose the wrong ones. Therefore, I hope that you can carefully understand the options, especially the options you will choose must be accurately translated.

    Memorize words, not pronunciation].

    Many test takers do well in reading but have poor listening. The main reason is that there is a mistake in the way of memorizing words. When memorizing words, I just look at the form and meaning of the words, and do not listen to or read the pronunciation of the words.

    As a direct result, when the words come out in the recording, the test taker cannot respond, or the response is slow. This is the main reason why most candidates do not have good listening scores. Therefore, to memorize words, you need to listen to the pronunciation of the words, and speed up the reaction speed by dictating and reading along.

    If you don't dictate carefully, the result is ineffective].

    Many students have taken dictation, but find that although they can understand more than before, they still get the questions wrong during the exam. Most of these students dictated a few articles and didn't insist too much at all. Or, after dictation, the content that cannot be heard is passed by, and there is no careful analysis, and there is no follow-up.

    Therefore, it is inevitable that these candidates have no obvious effect on their dictation.

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