New TOEFL Exam Listening High Score Guidance

Author: Liu Qinghua, Editor-in-Chief of TED New TOEFL Test Research Center
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Exclusive access to ETS core resources LangeEdgeTM. Familiarize with new question types, prepare for the new TOEFL. Comprehensively improve listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Innovative learning philosophy, practical communication skills. The purpose of this book is to fundamentally help a wide range of candidates form, consolidate, and expand their English listening foundation. Through a large number of targeted and specialized training content, it enables them to master and skillfully apply various new TOEFL listening techniques in a short period of time, boost confidence and exam awareness, and ultimately achieve high scores in the TOEFL listening test. In terms of selecting listening materials, this book adheres to the principle of focusing on basic training and genuinely improving candidates' English listening skills. It closely aligns with the new TOEFL question types, progresses from simple to complex, and systematically arranges various instructional and practice content to ensure that candidates' English listening comprehension abilities undergo fundamental improvement and enhancement through systematic training.
This book is divided into four parts:
Part 1 is an overview of the new TOEFL, introducing the reforms in the listening section and corresponding strategies, as well as systematically explaining methods to improve listening comprehension, along with some essential exam tips and techniques.
Part 2 focuses on basic listening training, covering essential and fundamental issues in listening comprehension such as loss of (aspiration), linking sounds, distinguishing between British and American accents, as well as listening problems related to numbers, vocabulary, phrases, and single sentences. It provides extensive systematic practice for each type of issue.
Part 3 provides an in-depth analysis of the themes and question types of the new TOEFL listening section, identifies problem-solving techniques, and offers targeted intensive training for various question types.
Part 4 features specialized training that targets the characteristics of listening themes, offering extensive practice on the various dialogue scenes and speech formats assessed in the new TOEFL, comprehensively training candidates in handling various tasks in university daily life and conducting academic exchanges in classroom environments.