TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) has for decades been used throughout the world as a standardized test for assessing English proficiency. With its high reliability and validity, this long-standing and much-revered test has a great deal to reveal to both students and teachers in the learning and teaching of English as a foreign language. Assuming a positive relations between the TOEFL test and the EFL course, this paper draws pedagogical implications of listening comprehension from the first section of the TOEFL test. Based on the classification and analyses of the most up-to-date computerized TOEFL listening comprehension test, this paper demonstrates how an EFL teacher can benefit from the TOEFL test for listening comprehension objectives, contents, activities and test designs. Also suggested are three types of curricular patterns for adopting TOEFL to teach listening comprehension.
