English for Academic Purposes: Materials
Listening Comprehension and Note-Taking
1 Introduction
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Introduction to note-taking skills
2 Understanding meaning
2.0 Introduction
2.1 Spoken language / Recognising spoken sentences
2.2 Understanding relations within the sentence / complex sentences
2.3 Understanding intonation, voice emphasis etc.
2.5 Deducing the meaning of unfamiliar words and word groups
2.6 Understanding explicitly stated information
2.7 Recognising implications: information not explicitly stated
2.8 Understanding conceptual meaning, e.g. comparison, purpose, cause, effect
3 Understanding relationships in the lecture/discussion/demonstration
3.1 Understanding the communicative value of sentences
3.2 Understanding relations between the parts of a lecture through lexical cohesion devices
3.3 Understanding relations between parts of a lecture through grammatical cohesion devices
3.4 Understanding relations between parts of a lecture by recognising indicators in discourse
4 Evaluating the importance of information
4.1 Recognising the sections of a talk
4.2 Recognising repeated or reformulated information
4.3 Distinguishing the main ideas from supporting material
4.4 Recognising unsupported claims and claims supported by evidence: fact from opinion
5 Listening skills
5.0 The listening process: how we listen
5.1 Skimming: listening to obtain gist
5.2 Scanning: listening to obtain specific information
5.3 Ignoring irrelevant information
5.4 Selective extraction of relevant points
Materials
1. Introduction
Heaton & Dunmore (1992, chap. 6)
James, Jordan & Matthews (1979)
Lynch (1983)
Mason (1983)
Salimbene (1982, chap. 2)
Waters & Waters (1995, chap. 6)
1.1. Introduction to note-taking skills
Ferguson & O’Reilly (1977)
Heaton & Dunmore (1992, chap. 5&10)
James, Jordan & Matthews (1979)
Lynch (1983, chap. 1)
Rowntree (1976, chap. 7)
Wallace (1980, chap. 3)
Waters & Waters (1995, chap.5)
1.2. The purpose of note-taking
Wallace (1980, chap.. 3)
Adkins & McKean (1985)
Espeseth (1999, pp. 10, 28-29, 41, 43, 56, 57, 135,)
James, Jordan & Matthews (1979, pp. 10-11)
Lynch (1983, chap. 6)
Wallace (1980, chap. 3)
Waters & Waters (1995, pp. 66-80)
Williams, R. (1982)
Yorkey (1982, chap. 7)
1.4. Abbreviations and symbols
Adkins & McKean (1985, chap. 2)
Espeseth (1999, pp. 26)
Lynch (1983, chap. 6)
Wallace (1980, chap. 3)
Yorkey (1982, chap. 7)
2. Understanding meaning
Adkins & McKean (1985)
Ferguson & O’Reilly (1977)
Jordan (1984)
Lynch (1983)
2.1. Spoken language / Recognising spoken sentences
Jordan (1984)
Lynch (1983, chs. 2 & 5)
Salehzadeh (2006, ch. 2)
2.2. Understanding relations within sentences / complex sentences
2.3. Understanding intonation, voice emphasis, etc
Jordan (1984)
Lynch (1983, chap. 2)
Lynch (1993, chap. 4)
Espeseth (1999, p. 54)
2.5. Deducing the meaning of unfamiliar words and word groups
Lynch (1983, chap. 5)
Espeseth (1999, pp. 11, 13, 29, 42, 44, 55-56, 81, 83, 97, 109, 121-123, 136)
2.6. Understanding explicitly stated information
2.7. Understanding implications: information not explicitly stated
Geddes (1988, chap. 3.7)
Espeseth (1999, pp. 7, 21, 27, 38)
2.8. Understanding conceptual meaning: e.g. comparison, purpose, cause, effect
Lynch (1983, chap. 7, 8, 9, & 10)
2.9. Recognising speaker’s attitude
3. Understanding relationships in the lecture etc
3.1. Understanding the communicative value of sentences
Lynch (1983)
3.2. Understanding relations between parts of a lecture through lexical cohesion devices
3.3. Understanding relations between parts of a lecture through grammatical cohesion devices
3.4. Understanding relations between parts of a lecture by recognising indicators in discourse
Lynch (1983, chs 8 & 13)
Salehzadeh (2006, ch. 3)
Wallace (1980, pp. 57-)
3.5. Understanding the lecture by going outside it
4. Evaluating the importance of information
4.1. Recognising the sections of a talk
Ferguson & O’Reilly (1977)
Lynch (1983, chap. 13)
Wallace (1980, pp. 62-, 76-)
4.2. Recognising repeated or reformulated information
Geddes (1988, chap. 6)
Lynch (1983, chap. 14)
4.3. Distinguishing the main ideas from supporting material
Espeseth (1999, p. 68)
Ferguson & O’Reilly (1977)
Heaton & Dunmore (1992, pp. 74-75)
Wallace (1980)
4.4. Recognising unsupported claims and claims supported by evidence: fact from opinion
Lynch (1983)
Lynch (1983, chap. 15)
Salehzadeh (2006, pp. 55-72)
4.6. Listening critically / evaluating the text
5. Listening skills
Fairfax & Trzeciak (1999, Unit 1)
Salehzadeh (2006, ch. 1)
5.1. Skimming: listening to obtain gist
Lynch (1983)
5.2. Scanning: listening to obtain specific information
Espeseth (1999, pp. 5, 6, 35, 63, 75, 76, 82, 104, 115, 131)
5.3. Ignoring irrelevant information
Espeseth (1999, p. 36)
Lynch (1983)
5.4. Selective extraction of relevant points
Lynch (1983)
5.5. Extracting salient points to summarise text
Espeseth (1999, pp. 12-13, 18-19, 37, 50, 65, 70-71, 90, 103, 137)
Geddes (1988, chap. 4)
Lynch (1983)
Espeseth (1999, pp. 3, 16, 18-19)
Jordan (1982)
Jordan (1984, chap. 4)
McDowell & Stevens (1982, chaps. 6 & 7)
Todd (1981, chaps. 10 & 11)
