Our listening classes combine practice in answering questions both about conversations and about lectures, and skill-building in answering a wide variety of question types. Through guided practice, students learn strategies that enable them to quickly identify the correct answers to the following listening comprehension question types:<\/p>\n
? gist-content questions<\/p>\n
? gist-purpose questions<\/p>\n
? detail questions<\/p>\n
? understanding the function of what is said questions<\/p>\n
? understanding the speaker\u2019s attitude questions<\/p>\n
? understanding organization questions<\/p>\n
? connecting content questions <\/p>\n
? inference questions.<\/p>\n
We also focus on expanding students’ background knowledge so that they are familiar and comfortable with a wide range of topics that are common in the TOEFL iBT Listening Section, including the Sciences, Social Sciences, Business, and the Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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