Let's learn in detail the components of the TOEFL listening section:
Listen to Lectures, Discussions and Conversations
This section assesses your ability to understand English candidates speak in a variety of contexts, such as college classes, discussions and everyday conversations.
- Task:- Listen to recordings that simulate real-life situations encountered in an academic environment or in everyday life.
- Understand different accents, speaking rates, and tones.
Answering Questions Based on Audio Content
Candidates must demonstrate the ability to extract relevant information from audio content and answer questions accurately body.
- Task:- Answer multiple-choice questions that assess the speaker's understanding of details, main ideas and attitudes.
- Complete tables or charts based on information presented in the audio.
- Summarize or paraphrase information from listening passages.
Recognize the Speaker's Attitude, Purpose and Main Idea
This component assesses the candidate's ability to understand the intention, emotion and central theme in the content of the speaker's words.
- Task:- Determine the speaker's attitude (eg, positive, negative, neutral).
- Understand the purpose of communication (eg, inform, persuade, express an opinion).
- Recognize the main idea or key point that the speaker conveys.
Understanding Information and Implied Details
Candidates are challenged to infer information that is not explicitly stated in the audio content, assessing their ability to grasp ideas and their implied meaning.
- Task:- Infer the speaker's opinion, intention or feelings.
- Identify hidden details or relationships between pieces of information.
- Draw conclusions based on information presented in the listening passage.
