Exploring Students Comprehension of Speaker Intention In Part A of The TOEFL Listening Section

Abstract

For almost five years, the Ministry of Higher Education in Iraq has encouraged Universities to improve students' communicative competence in foreign language education through tests such as TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). Students who intend to be more competent in English language and who plan to continue their higher studies inside Iraq or abroad are obliged to take such a test. Having studied English for four years, students of English throughout Iraq who attempt to take such a test must get a pre-determined score in order to pass. But most students of English, who had experienced the TOEFL test, always have a negative reaction against it.