TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lebauer,R.Susan
TI  - Learn to listen, listen to learn: an advanced ESL/EFL lecture comprehension and note-taking textbook 
SN  - 0135271282
AV  - LB2393 .L43 1988
PY  - 1988///
CY  - Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
PB  - Regents/Prentice Hall
KW  - Lecture method in teaching
KW  - Listening
KW  - Note-taking
KW  - English language
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign speakers
N1  - Table Of Contents; Preface; 1 PRE-COURSEWORK EVALUATION; Lecture No. 1--The Process of Lecture Comprehension; Lecture Comprehension and Note-Taking Pre-Coursework Evaluation; Note-taking Feedback Form; 2 LOOKING AT LECTURE TRANSCRIPTS; Comparing the Language of Lecturing to the Language of Writing; Recognizing Cues; Recognizing Paraphrase, Repetition, Exemplification, and Tangential Information; Drawing Conclusions about the Differences Between the Language of Lecturing and the Language of Writing; Exercises in Examining the Language of Lectures; Predicting Information; Exercises in Predicting Information; Predicting Words; Exercises in Predicting Words; Predicting Content and Lecture Direction; Exercises in Predicting Content and Lecture Organizational Direction; 3 NOTE-TAKING BASICS; Noting Key Words; Using Note-taking Symbols; Exercises in Noting Key Words and Using Note-taking Symbols; Visually Representing Relationships and the Relative Importance of Information; Exercises in Visually Representing Relationships and the Relative Importance of Information; Note-taking Practice; Eight DOs and DON'Ts for Improving Lecture Comprehensive and Note-taking; 4 NOTING NUMBERS AND STATISTICS; Aural Discrimination of Numbers Which Sound Similar; Exercises in Aural Discrimination of Numbers Which Sound Similar; Noting Large Numbers in Isolation; Exercises in Noting Larger Numbers in Isolation; Exercises in Noting Fractions and Decimals; Listening to and Taking Notes on Lectures Containing Numbers and Statistics; Lecture No. 2--American Goals; Lecture No. 3--Immigration to the U.S; Lecture No. 4--Marriage and Divorce in the U.S; 5 LISTENING FOR ORGANIZATION IN LECTURES; Why Listen for Organization?; Introductions; Exercises in Using Introductions to Recognize Lecture Focus and Direction; Conclusions; Organization Within Lectures; Organizational Plan No. 1--Defining a Term; No. 2--Describing Characteristics; No. 3--Describing a Process or Sequence of Events; No. 4--Describing the Causal Relationship between Events; No. 5--Breaking a Topic Down into Subtopics by Enumerating or Listening; No. 6--Exemplifying a Topic; No. 7--Breaking a Topic Down into Subtopics by Classifying; No. 8--Comparing and Contrasting; No. 9--Making a Generalization and Providing Evidence; Tangents; Exercises in Recognizing Tangents; 6 LECTURE COMPREHENSION AND NOTE-TAKING PRACTICE (Part 1); Lecture No. 5--How to Deal With Stress; Lecture No. 6--Acid Rain; Lecture No. 7--Cacti; Lecture No. 8--A Dietary Role in Cancer?; Lecture No. 9--Archaeological Dating Methods; Lecture No. 10--Pheromones; Lecture No. 11--The Near Side of the Moon; Lecture No. 12--Nicotine; Lecture No. 13--Voter Turnout in the United States; Lecture No. 14--Amnesty International; Lecture No. 15--Hall's Classification of Cultures; Lecture No. 16--Nuclear Winter; 7 LECTURE COMPREHENSION AND NOTE-TAKING PRACTICE (Part 2); Lecture No. 17--Perfectionism; Lecture No. 18--Robots in the Workplace; APPENDIX A: Lecture Index by Organization; APPENDIX B: Lecture Index by Subject Matter; APPENDIX C: Rewritten Notes for Lectures
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