A study of dispreferred second turns used in part a listening section of toefl pbt

... recordings of talk and social interaction It is regarded as a socialscience approach that has the primary purpose of describing, analyzing and understanding talk as a basic and constitutive feature... (Broukal, 1994: 8-9) Most of the dialogs in Part A of TOEFL PBT involve a man and a woman each of whom usually speaks one or two sentences The topics of the dialogs in Part A are about facets of. .. patterns of dispreferred structures used in Part A Listening Section of TOEFL PBT  Examine the linguistic features signaling dispreferred responses in Part A Listening Comprehension of TOEFL PBT