Learn to Listen, Listen to Learn 2: Academic Listening and Note-Taking, 3rd edition

Published by Pearson (January 12, 2010) © 2009

  • Roni S. Lebauer

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ISBN-13: 9780138140007
Learn to Listen, Listen to Learn 2: Academic Listening and Note-Taking
Published 2010

Students are shown how a typical lecture is organised, using extensive excerpts and transcripts from authentic lectures on high-interest topics from a wide range of academic disciplines.

  • vocabulary, extension and post-lecture activities to encourage students to discuss, research and write about ideas raised in the lectures
  • strategies to help students recognise lecture organisation and know how to evaluate and predict information
  • a focus on acquisition of vocabulary - especially from the Academic Word List - and the recognition of language cues
  • preparation for academic testing through TOEFL-style test questions, which appear throughout the text

Samples

Preview samples from Learn to Listen 2
  • STARTING OUT: PRE-COURSEWORK EVALUATION
  • A. Evaluating Listening Comprehension and Note-Taking Skills
  • LECTURE 1: Academic Listening (Linguistics)
  • B. Teacher’s Note-Taking Feedback Form
  • C. Student’s Goal-Setting Form
  • Unit 2 THE STRUCTURE OF A LECTURE
  • A. Comparing the Language of Lecturing to the Language of Writing
  • B. Noticing Lecture Structure and Cues
  • C. Understanding the Role of Paraphrase, Repetition, Exemplifi cation, and Digression
  • D. Key Differences between the Language of Lecturing and the Language of Writing
  • E. Using Context and Prediction to Get Main Ideas
  • F. Predicting Content and Lecture Direction
  • Unit 3 USING INTRODUCTIONS, CONCLUSIONS, AND DIGRESSIONS
  • A. Understanding Lecture Focus and Direction from Introductions
  • B. Using Conclusions to Check the Lecture’s Main Points
  • C. Digressions
  • Unit 4 NOTE-TAKING BASICS
  • A. Recognizing and Using Key Words
  • B. Making Abbreviations Work for You
  • C. Using Note-Taking Symbols and Abbreviations
  • D. Visually Representing Relationships and the Relative Importance of Information
  • LECTURE 2: Women and Work (Sociology)
  • E. Note-Taking Practice
  • F. Eight DOs and DON’Ts for Improving Lecture Comprehension and Note-Taking
  • Unit 5 NOTING NUMBERS AND STATISTICS EFFECTIVELY
  • A. Numbers: A Review
  • LECTURE 3: Milestones in Technology (History/Technology)
  • LECTURE 4: Immigration to the United States (History/Sociology)
  • Unit 6 LISTENING FOR ORGANIZATION (PART 1)
  • A. Understanding the Importance of Recognizing Lecture Organization
  • B. Recognizing Organizational Plans within Lectures
  • C. Defining Terms through Simple and Extended Defi nitions
  • D. Listing Subtopics
  • E. 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)
  • A. Describing Characteristics
  • B. Describing a Process or Sequence of Events
  • C. 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)
  • A. Describing a Causal Relationship
  • B. Comparing and Contrasting
  • C. 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

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