Comparison of the listening comprehension between IELTS and IBT

The difference between the two is still very obvious, the first education wants to from the examination study of the question set, to Examinee's request and difficulty, as well as the teacher teaches these three aspects to make the simple analysis.

First of all, from the examination and test set up, the two have the following differences:

1, the length of the exam, IELTS listening total playback time is about 25 minutes, plus an additional 10 minutes of transcription answers to the answer sheet of time, a total of about 35 minutes. The minimum test time for the new TOEFL listening section is 60 minutes, and it may take up to 90 minutes for an additional test. At this point, the new TOEFL hearing is more demanding for candidates ' endurance.

2, the Test form and interface, the new TOEFL is the form of computer networks and IELTS is currently taking the traditional paper and pencil exams, the examination room environment and listening equipment are different. At least for the time being, the TOEFL test will probably be a little noisy in the examination room of the TOEFL exam, with a certain degree of anti-jamming ability.

3, blind listening and preview, IELTS test, when the test taker can see the test, each recording before playing, will leave a certain time (generally 30 seconds or so) to the candidates to preview the topic beforehand, so the examinee can have the purpose, selectively handle the hearing material. The new TOEFL hearing is different, is the first to put the recording, after the end of the title is displayed on the computer screen, so the examinee can not determine the contents of the question before they see the topic, the whole recording must be focused attention, and learn effective notes and shorthand ability.

4, the recording content of the material, the IELTS test hearing contains four parts (4-6 minutes per part), each part is 10 questions, of which one or two is related to the life scene, three or four part of the academic scene; the new TOEFL Listening section contains two or three dialogues (2-3 minutes per conversation), and each conversation should have 5 questions , and four or six lecture recordings (4-6 minutes per lecture), with 6 questions for each lecture. In comparison, the new TOEFL is more about the academic scene, and the involvement is more extensive, the overall difficulty of the material itself should be much higher than the IELTS.

5, from the examination target, the IELTS hearing 40 questions, basically is examines to the detail capture, the recognition and the understanding ability, but the IBT is compared with the more complex and the multi-level, both the detail question, also has the main idea and the inference and so on comprehensive ability investigation.

6, from the pronunciation, although both stressed the internationalization of pronunciation, but after all, two exams to face the crowd has focused on, so IELTS or British-style pronunciation, and IBT is mainly American tone.

7, from the question set, the IELTS hearing type is more rich and diverse, in general, not less than 10 types of questions, such as table title, complete sentence problems, short answer questions, choice questions, map problems, collocation questions, chart questions, tick questions, labeling problems, summary questions, and other types of problems. And the new TOEFL is mainly a choice question.

From the answer request is also very different, IELTS is mainly in order to require students to spell the blanks of the topic as the leading, and IBT only need to select the sub-mother answer. In this sense, IELTS listening has a higher requirement for students ' basic abilities, such as spelling.

8, and from the perspective of candidates, IBT because of its main choice of questions, so even if you do not understand, good luck can also get a good score. But IELTS is different, even if you understand, but the spelling is not correct or shorthand ability is not good, still can not get the ideal score. Therefore, the IELTS listening to the basic listening ability of students higher, and TOEFL listening to students to do selective questions of the test skills to play more leeway.

9, from the teacher's point of view, it should be more easy to operate the IELTS, because of the diversity of the types of questions, the gradient of difficulty gradients, the contents of the neat division and predictability, are more easily in the teaching process to operate and play.

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Comparison of the listening comprehension between IELTS and IBT