TOEFL Connecting Information Questions

Connecting Information Questions

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Types of Connecting Information Questions

Connecting Information questions require you to make connections between or among pieces of information in the lecture or conversation.

Understanding Organization Questions

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Connecting Content Questions

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Making Inferences Questions

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Understanding Organization Questions

Understanding Organization Questions Definition

Understanding Organization Questions are the first type of question inside the Connecting Information category.

In Understanding Organization questions you may be asked about the overall organization of the lecture, or you may be asked about the relationship between two portions of what you heard.

How to recognize U. Organization Questions

Understanding Organization questions are typically phrased as follows:

How does the professor organize the information about X?

Why does the professor discuss X?

Why does the professor mention X?

How is the discussion organized?

How to answer U. Organization Questions?

•Questions that ask about overall organization are more likely to be found after lectures than after conversations. Refer to your notes to answer these questions. It may not have been apparent from the start that the professor organized the information (for example) chronologically, or from least to most complex, or in some other way.

Pay attention to comparisons made by the professor. In the following example the professor is discussing the structure of plants.

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Connecting content

Connecting Content Questions Definition

Connecting Content Questions are the second type of question inside the Connecting Information category.

Connecting Content questions measure your understanding of the relationships among ideas in a lecture. These relationships may be explicitly stated, or you may have to infer them from the words you hear. The questions may ask you to organize information in a different way from the way it was presented in the lecture.

You might be asked to identify comparisons, cause and effect, or contradiction and agreement. You may also be asked to classify items in categories, identify a sequence of events or steps in a process, or specify relationships among objects along some dimension.

How to Connecting Content Questions

Connecting Content questions are typically phrased as follows:

What is the likely outcome of doing procedure X before procedure Y?

What does the professor imply about X?

What can be inferred about X?

How to answer Connecting Content Questions?

• Questions that require you to fill in a chart or table or put events in order fall into this category. As you listen to the lectures accompanying this study guide, pay attention to the way you format your notes.

Clearly identifying terms and their definitions as well as steps in a process will help you answer questions of this type.

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Making Inferences Questions

Making Inferences Questions Definition

Making Inferences Questions are the last type of question inside the Connecting Information category.

The final type of Connecting Information question is Making Inferences questions. In this kind of question, you usually have to reach a conclusion based on facts presented in the lecture or conversation.

How to recognize Making Inferences Questions

Making Inferences questions are typically phrased as follows:

What does the professor imply when he says this? (replay)

What will the student probably do next?

What does the professor imply about X?

What can be inferred about X?

How to answer for Making Inferences Questions?

• In some cases, answering this kind of question correctly means putting together details from the lecture or conversation to reach a conclusion. In other cases, the professor may imply something without directly stating it. In most cases, the answer you choose will use vocabulary not found in the lecture or conversation.

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He uses steel and the steel girders in a new building to make a point. A professor may mention something that is seemingly off-topic in order to explain a concept. The professor will mention something familiar to the students as a way of introducing a new idea.

Your ability to integrate information from different parts of the lecture or conversation, to make inferences, to draw conclusions, to form generalisations, and to make predictions is tested. To choose the right answer, you will need to be able to identify and explain relationships among ideas and details in a lecture or conversation. These relationships may be explicit or implicit.