Page 4 - MUET My Way (2022)

PART
MUET My Way Part 1 - Listening
1

Introduction

1 Paper 1 of the Malaysian University English Test (MUET) is
Listening. The aim of the paper is to test candidates’ abilities to
understand spoken discourse at tertiary education level.

2 Therefore, subjects and topics in the test will be of academic and
LISTENING
educational environment. However, it could also include people
and culture, financial awareness and consumerism, science and
technology, and health and environment.

MUET Duration:
800/1 50 minutes Overview
PAPER 1

The paper 30 Multiple
Structure of
the paper is made up Choice
of 5 parts Questions

25%
weighting 90 marks Marks

Quotes 3 There are a few types of knowledge needed in answering the
Quotes
listening test. First, background knowledge would require candidates
to draw on their understanding of real-world setting and are able to
“Everything in writing begins
with language. Language respond to them accordingly.
begins with listening.”
4 In terms of linguistic knowledge, candidates need phonological,
~ Jeanette Winterson ~
syntactic, and lexical ranging from general to discipline-specific
words.
5 In addition, pragmatic knowledge will need candidates to have
mastered functional use of knowledge, knowledge of discourse,
coherence and cohesion, and text types.

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