PdF:AJPV_ASLI Academic Skills: Listening - Course Information
AJPV_ASLI Academic Skills: Listening
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2007
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Renata Povolná, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková - Timetable
- Thu 10:40–12:20 učebna 21
- Prerequisites
- Advanced level of English
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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- Course objectives
- The Academic Skills: Listening course includes listening to both monologic and interactive discourse and focuses on listening to lectures, note taking and discussion. The tasks are tailored so as to expose students to different standards of English as well as to different techniques and styles of lecturing and thus try to provide learners with material for discussion and critical assessment from a methodological point of view.
- Syllabus
- 1.Spoken and written English. Contextualizing the talk. 2.Making predictions about the topic. Listening for main ideas. 3.Note taking without a handout. Using symbols and abbreviations. 4.Note taking with a handout. Using context, morphology and non- verbal cues to guess word meaning. 5.Monitoring understanding. Procedural vocabulary. 6.Assessing speaking styles. Hedging. 7.Listening for specific information. Comparing information from different sources. 8.Asking questions and discussing talk. 9.Summarizing the talk. Retelling talk. 10.Speaker attitude. Personal, cultural and cross-cultural perspectives.
- Literature
- LYNCH, Tony. Study listening : a course in listening to lectures and note-taking. 2nd ed. Cambridge: University Press, 2004, 214 s. ISBN 0521533872. info
- NUNAN, David. Language teaching methodology :a textbook for teacher. Harlow: Longman, Pearson Education, 2000, xiv, 264 s. ISBN 0-13-521469-6. info
- WALLACE, Michael J. Study skills in english. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, 92 s. ISBN 0521221099. info
- Assessment methods (in Czech)
- Weekly double-period sessions Presence and participation at seminars is required. Preparation includes listening to longer texts which are discussed during the following sessions Performance during the sessions is the main critearion for getting the credit. Students should also hand in all written assignments.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Teacher's information
- http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=948
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2007, recent)
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