The Class Audio CD Set is enclosed with the student book.

"Understanding academic lectures and taking good notes can be a challenge even for Advanced to High-Advanced language students because it requires more than language skills. The third edition of Learn to Listen - Listen to Learn helps students acquire the listening-comprehension and note-taking skills to meet this challenge successfully" (Book Cover).

CONTENTS:

Unit 1: Starting Out: Pre-Coursework Evaluation Evaluating Listening Comprehension and Note-taking Skills
Lecture 1: Academic listening (Linguistics)
Teacher's Note-Taking Feedback Form
Student's Goal-Setting Form

Unit 2: The Structure of a Lecture Comparing the Language of Lecturing to the Language of Writing
Noticing Lecture Structure and Cues
Understanding the Role of Paraphrase, Repetition, Exemplification, and Digression
Key Differences between the Language of Lecturing and the Language of Writing
Using Context and Prediction to Get Main Ideas
Predicting Content and Lecture Direction

Unit 3: Using Introductions, Conclusions and Digressions Understanding Lecture Focus and Direction from Introductions
Using Conclusions to Check the Lecture's Main Points
Digressions

Unit 4: Note-Taking Basics Recognizing and Using Key Words
Making Abbreviations Work for You
Using Note-Taking Symbols and Abbreviations
Visually Representing Relationships and the Relative Importance of Information
Lecture 2: Women and Work (Sociology)
Note-Taking Practice
Dos and Don'ts

Unit 5: Noting Numbers and Statistics Effectively Numbers
Lecture 3: Milestones in Technology (History/Technology)
Lecture 4: Immigration to the United States (History/Sociology)

Unit 6: Listening for Organization (Part 1) Understanding the Importance of Recognizing Lecture Organization
Recognizing Organizational Plans within Lectures
Defining Terms through Simple and Extended Definitions
Listing Subtopics
Exemplifying a Topic
Lecture 5: Amnesty International (Political Science/Management)
Lecture 6: Two 21st Century Eco-Heroes (Ecology)

Unit 7: Listening for Organization (Part 2) Describing Characteristics
Describing a Process or Sequence of Events
Classifying Subtopics
Lecture 7: Paging Robodoc: Robots in Medicine (Biology/Technology)
Lecture 8: How to Look at Art (Art)

Unit 8: Listening for Organization (Part 3)
Describing a Causal Relationship
Comparing and Contrasting
Recognizing Generalizations and their Support
Lecture 9: Hall's Classification of Cultures (Sociology)
Lecture 10: Earthquakes: Can They Be Predicted (Geology)

Unit 9: Tying It Together: End of Course Evaluation Lecture 11: Perfectionism (Psychology)
Lecture 12: High-Tech Harvesting: Hope or Horror? (Agriculture/Ecology/Biology)

Appendix A: Academic Word List Vocabulary

Appendix B: Lecture Index by Organizational Plan

Appendix C: Lecture Index by Subject Matter

Appendix D: Rewritten Notes for Lectures

Level: Advanced