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See some XDJM asked about how to improve listening in short period. The only effective way I know to improve listening is to listen more and practice harder. there is no easy way to achieve this goal within one month.
If you only want to improve your TOEFL listening, focus on TOEFL past exams. Listen to the listening part of each exam--even including the very old materials--carefully.
Listen and do the exercise for the first round.
Listen and try to make clear every word in the second round. Pay special attention to the ones you do the question wrong. Listen as many times as needed to the degree that you understand clearly why you are wrong and what is the right answer.
Summarize your practice, like some pronunciation rules, new words, idioms and tones.
For longer paragraphs, it takes time to get used to the speed and expand your memory space for the content. Try to listen it without repeat for the first round. Then answer the question to see how much you have understand.
in the second round, listen to it as a whole for several times. Stop whenever you find you don't understand it even though there may be no questions for that part. Repeat as many times as needed until you get the idea. Then go on. Remember to summarize things that prevent you from understanding the sentence.
In the third round, listen to it without stop, try to focus on main idea, its organization, relations between different topics, and purposes of some paragraphs. This help you to remember the details as much as possible and get an idea of the questions that may be asked later.
When you reach a degree that sentences are mostly understandable without too many problems, you can proceed to only repeat the whole passage without stop. Practice concentration during the process.
This advice is based on my own experience in improving listening--not just for TOEFL of course. After spending a summer vacation listening to "Listen to this 2" every day for 1 chapter when I was still a freshman, I found myself understand most of the things i listen to, even for VOA standard news. If you want to improve greatly within short period, your practice must be intense. Whenever you omit one day's schedule, you are backward a lot. Day by day, the difference may not be obvious, but after a certain period, difference will be very encouraging!
By the way, I don't recommend dictation. Your speed to write greatly prevents you from focusing on what you hear and will affect the speed you can understand. And dont' make notes while listening--that is always a bad habit.
Hope this is helpful !
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