How to develop the ability to distinguish sounds in TOEFL listening
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Many TOEFL test takers, when first practicing TOEFL listening, listen to the material word by word. Gradually, they are able to listen to phrases or groups of words at a time, and once they reach a certain level, they can listen to sentences as a whole. By then, you had forgotten that what you were hearing was English; all that reached your ears were individual meanings. It’s just like when you listen to Chinese; we never think, “I am listening to Chinese.” It is a state of being completely absorbed in what one is doing. How can one achieve this state of being completely absorbed? ? The first thing we need to address is mastering the pronunciation of English. More TOEFL materials can be found on Akaso TOEFL Online; you can get free access to trial courses by registering. The two most effective methods for improving pronunciation are dictation and intensive listening. Dictation: Write down the entire text from a listening recording. Dictation is the most effective way to test and improve a person’s phonetic discrimination skills; after dictation, one should compare it with the correct text and listen again and again until everything can be heard clearly. Intensive listening: Listen to the recording while looking at the correct text. Mark the words you are not familiar with as you listen, and look up those words after the first playback. Then listen again until you can understand it without referring to the text. The most suitable material for intensive listening is SSS (Scientific American’s Sixty-Second Science), as it lasts only one minute, contains a great deal of information, and more importantly, it serves as an important source for questions in the TOEFL listening test.
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