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KMID : 0917520000070020157
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Journal of Speech Sciences
2000 Volume.7 No. 2 p.157 ~ p.175
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An Analysis of English Listening Iterm on the TOEFL
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The aim of this paper was to diagnose Korean college students´ listening skills on the TOEFL. The researchers indentified which section, among the TOEFL listening Part A, B, and C, is most easily teachable/ improvable during the period of a semester. First, the result of this research show that Korean students tend to have lower scores in Part A than Part B or Part C. The results indicate that the short informal conversation doesn´t give sufficient clues to students, and they don´t have enough time to infer the answer. Second, the results revealed that.students showed the lowest progress in Part B after they studied TOEFL listening items and essential idioms for the listening section for 13 weeks. Because students didn´t have much experience learning the informal conversation as opposed to the formal one in English, it is harder to achieve an improved grade in Part B, which consists of the informal conversation. But after a semester-long listening course, the average score on TOEFL listening sections increased.
Keywords : listening, learning effects, TOEFL analysis
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