Learn to Listen, Listen to Learn 2 : Academic Listening and Note-taking /
Roni S. Lebauer.
- 3rd Ed.
- New York : Pearson Education ; 2010.
- 201 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. + 4 CDs.
- Learn to Listen, Listen to Learn. .
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
9780138140007 (Student Book) 9780131361911 (Class Audio CD Set)
English language --Foreign speakers.--Studying and teaching English language --United States.--Studying and teaching English language--Note-taking.--Lecture Method in teaching English language --Listening comprehension.--Lecture Method in teaching