Practice for the communicative skill of listening, subskill classifying and categorizing information.
The PTE Academic item types where this subskill is tested are
- Speaking: Re-tell lecture
- Listening: Summarize spoken text
- Listening: Multiple choice, choose multiple answers
- Listening: Highlight correct summary
- Listening: Multiple choice, choose single answer
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Summary of how this subskill is practiced in each resource |
Academic Connections 1,
Academic Connections 2,
Academic Connections 3,
Academic Connections 4 |
distinguishing essential from non-essential information, and major and minor points, evaluating information presented to support a position |
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Academic Listening Encounters: Life in Society
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thinking critically to categorize the information heard
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| Lecture Ready 3 |
recognizing generalizations and support, identifying clarification and emphasis, recognizing causes and effects, comparisons and contrast, understanding definitions, recognizing citations |
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NorthStar Listening and Speaking 3,
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organizing and synthesizing information, analyzing problems and proposing solutions, classifying and categorizing information, matching actions to consequences, evaluating effectiveness of arguments
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| NorthStar Listening and Speaking 4, |
identifying connecting themes and thought groups, organizing and synthesizing information, evaluating assumptions |
| NorthStar Listening and Speaking 5 |
classifying information as fact or myth |