A Pragmatic Analysis of TOEFL Listening Comprehesion
Zeng Fang
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Zeng Fang
Abstract
TOEFL Listening Comprehension aims at testing not only candidates linguistic competence but their pragmatic competence. This paper attempts to study the infiltration of pragmatic theories into TOEFL listening comprehension, hoping its instructive to the design of listening comprehesion test and to listening comprehension teaching or learning.
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TOEFL Listening Comprehension aims at testing not only candidates linguistic competence but their pragmatic competence. This paper attempts to study the infiltration of pragmatic theories into TOEFL listening comprehension, hoping its instructive to the design of listening comprehesion test and to listening comprehension teaching or learning.
Key concepts: Test of English as a Foreign Language, Listening comprehension, Active listening, Competence (human resources), Psychology, Comprehension, Linguistics, Mathematics education