If you can only write and know the words by heart, but not by pronunciation, you won't be able to recognize them smoothly in the listening test. Therefore, in the process of listening comprehension, we will stop to recall the meaning of words, forming a blank area of discourse understanding. Usually, students should test whether they remember words by dictation.
In addition, a large number of subject vocabulary should be accumulated. Of course, many students will think that these keywords are too uncommon, not used in daily life, too easy to forget and very laborious!
Then, if students want to avoid the problem of easy forgetting after memorizing words, they can do listening according to the combination of word memory and subject classification exercises.
1, do some targeted training according to different starting points.
The main problem for students whose listening scores are below 16 is that their foundation is not solid enough. The processing speed of words and expressions in listening materials is too slow, which affects the understanding of the whole article.
The advice given to students at this stage is to listen carefully with phrases sentence by sentence and lay a good listening foundation. You can choose 93 phrases from the old TOEFL, learn American SSS, or choose dialogue comprehension from TPO real questions. These audio with a total duration of less than 3 minutes are good materials.
After listening carefully sentence by sentence, do a combing and comparison in time, analyze the information not heard in the original text, and see if it is a problem of vocabulary barrier or a phonetic phenomenon. If it is a vocabulary problem, make an accumulation, write it down, read it several times, and recite it several times; If it is a phonetic phenomenon, listen to the corresponding sound source several times. After listening carefully, read the manuscript and imitate pronunciation, intonation and speech speed.
For the students whose listening starts with 16-23, the main problem is that the processing speed of long sentences and specific details is too slow. The full text can understand the outline and framework, but the details are vague.
At this stage, the suggestion for students is to use long articles for retelling, listening and translation exercises to improve the accuracy and detail of understanding the level of detail in the text. When choosing a long text, it is enough to choose the real topic of TPO academic lecture.
Retelling practice is listening to English and speaking English, and listening to translation practice is listening to English and speaking Chinese. Two different exercises achieve different goals. Retelling practice can improve the accuracy of restoring the information heard, and can be used for listening training of comprehensive oral English or comprehensive writing. Listening and translation exercises can train and improve the understanding speed of long sentences in academic lectures in listening sub-items. Both of the above exercises can be started from small slices step by step, such as repeating each sentence or listening and translating it once, and then gradually expanding to practice every 1 minute or even every 2 minutes. In this process, you can train yourself to take notes at the same time and the ability to organize processing information.
For students with a starting score of more than 24, the main problem is that there will be some information missing in the details. However, the details obtained in the exam are all key details, so the omission of details is mainly due to the inaccurate prediction of the test center. Be sure to pay more attention to the whole process of text structure and content development, and train yourself to predict the test sites.
At this stage, the suggestion for students is to sort out the text structure according to different disciplines (the structural characteristics of articles in the same discipline are often similar) and do the whole retelling exercise. By comparing the original text, this paper analyzes whether the missing information is the test center or the content closely related to the central idea of the original text, so as to further deepen the judgment on the importance of information.
In addition, if you want to improve your adaptability to the speed of speech, you can adjust the speed of speech to 1.2 times (mainly the materials before TPO30) when training the real TPO questions, so that you will have more time to think and react during the exam and predict the test sites in time.
2. Kung Fu digress, or pay more attention to the immersion of the English language environment.
Students can do more daily extensive reading after class, such as Scientific American, VOA Special English, TED talk and so on. Broaden your knowledge, and at the same time, you can strengthen your understanding of phonetic phenomena such as continuous reading and long sentences, thus further improving the response speed to fast-paced discourse content.
In terms of ability, the improvement of listening comprehension is actually a subtle improvement in daily training, and it is a qualitative change brought about by quantitative change. Although every stage of students' ability improvement cannot be crossed, we can try our best to shorten the process of each stage.
I hope that students can review their TOEFL listening test in a way suitable for their scores, win TOEFL listening test as soon as possible, and break up with TOEFL!