Five sanction areas for non native IELTS candidates in IELTS Listening
As non native students are writing and speaking in English with their regional accent, with not much vulnerable to foreign accent, it can be the cause of some penalties they may face in IELTS Listening module. So, let’s know what these penalties are and how can you overcome these risky areas to achieve 9band in IELTS Listening in today’s article Five sanction areas for non native IELTS candidates in IELTS Listening.
1_Pronunciation_ Alphabets/Numbers or singular/plural words
The most common area that leads to incorrect answers in section 1 of IELTS Listening is related to pronunciation. You may be facing difficulties in correctly understanding the Pronunciation of carefully like alphabets (when a speaker is spelling the name or address) or numbers (when speaker talks about phone number)
Another is related to singular/plural words. Many of the times, it is seen that candidates do not hear it clearly whether the word is singular or plural, for example, if the Speaker says, “admission forms”, candidates do not concentrate properly or not able to recognize whether they need to writ the “form “with or without ‘s’.
Useful tip:-
To overcome this, you should listen to foreign accent stuff such as group discussions, radio shows, talk shows etc. Also, just Google for the pronunciation of alphabet/number in the UK/US foreign accent and keep on hearing it till you absorb the right pronunciation well.
2) Spelling mistakes
One of the major issues you may face in listening is to write the correct spelling of words spoken in audio. However candidates are not aware about spelling of words and hence they go wrong in Writing them correctly. And, it is also seen that there are some students who know the correct spelling but hurriedly, they may write them incorrectly or when they don’t review properly what they have written.
For example _”Accommodation” is often written mistakenly as “accommodation”.
Useful tip:-
To deal with this obstacle, practice reading and writing more to learn correct spelling. You can also practice online spelling exercises by searching in Google.
3) Grammar
Apart from the above penalty areas, grammar is another hurdle, candidates face while giving IELTS Listening test. It may usually happen when you are more concentrating on the information only and do not see the nearby words to predict the answer grammatically. For example, all the college students are needed to submit all the………..for applying to the contest.
If you see, in the above question, “all” is the word that indicates your answer in the blank should be plural word, not singular.
Useful tip:-
Do check your answer grammatically within the given time before the audio starts.
4) Choosing word instructions
Another thing is to write the answer according to the word instruction. If instruction is “NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS”, it implies that your answer should be of one or two words. It doesn’t imply that you have to write only 2 words. For example, Question;
Parents willing to enjoy the…………with the students can register soon.
Audio:
Parents who are waiting to join the most awaited holiday trip with the students can register soon.
Answer: Holiday trip
*Answer should be holiday trip, not most awaited holiday trip
Useful tip:-
Focus on understand too, apart from matching the words in the question with the words in the audio.
5) Understanding paraphrasing
In some of the IELTS Listening questions, especially the MCQ’s you may miss your answer or skip the audio when there’s paraphrasing used in the audio. You are likely to lose confidence in choosing the accurate answer and may go lost in the audio.
Useful tip: In this case, underline keywords and focus on understanding the conversation and relate it with the underlined keywords.
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Five sanction areas for non native IELTS candidates
Five sanction areas for non native IELTS candidates