So what are we listening for?
A comparison of the English listening constructs
in the Japanese National Centre Test and TOEFL® iBT

Appendix J: Characteristics of the questions
in the TOEFL® iBT


Question formats: 1. Multiple-choice questions with three distractors and a single correct answer
2. Some choices are illustrations
Passage types: Dialogues and multilogs with centrally-administered tasks
Situations: Daily life interactions between friends, acquaintance, and strangers;
University interactions between student and secretary, classmates, student and teacher, etc.
Number of
exchanges/words:		 Conversations: 2-10 exchanges
Announcements: 90-100 words
Short talks: 184 words
Length per
conversation/passage:		 Conversations: 10-40 seconds
Announcements: 20-30 seconds
Short talks: 90 seconds
Questions per
conversation/passage:		 Conversations: 1-3
Announcements: 1
Short talks: 1-3
Topics covered: 1. Service encounters at restaurants, school campuses, and on the street, etc.
2. Requests for academic and non-academic information
Source: Adopted from the guidelines of TOEFL_ iBT (ETS, 2005).

Main Article Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Appendix E
Appendix F Appendix G Appendix H Appendix I Appendix J Appendix K
2006 Pan SIG-Proceedings: Topic Index Author Index Page Index Title Index Main Index
Complete Pan SIG-Proceedings: Topic Index Author Index Page Index Title Index Main Index

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