EFS 693B - STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Listening and Communication
EFS 693B - STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Listening and Communication
EFS 693B
Notes: 2-1
I. Opening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90YsTGklRqA&feature=related
II. Review homework
1. Listen to http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=448493458864593229 again. Try to find as many new words or phrases as you can (at least 5). If you are unable to hear/spell the word clearly enough to look it up, write down the phrase or sentence it occurs in.
a. Go over word lists together
b. Do gap filler exercise
c. Review vocabulary: How do you know which ones to learn?
d. Lesson learned: try to find material with a transcript to support vocabulary development
2.Review a part of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_fdyA24BdU. Who are the three main characters? How well do you understand what's going on?
3. Watch the first few minutes of http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3211083609505219709&ei=MGfQSdB1oNqoA8uf2PoD. How easy was it to understand after watching the previous videos? Watch more of later if you liked it.
4. Introduce concept of narrow listening: see http://esl-advices.blogspot.com/2006/08/narrow-listening-effective-method-of.html for a simple description and rationale. See http://www.sdkrashen.com/articles/eta_paper/07.html for a more academic view.
III. 3 keys to improving listening.
A. Learning to comprehend more effectively
§ Getting the basic meaning
§ Retaining important points (notes & memory)
§ Interpreting and integrating
B. Improving processing
§ Comprehending faster speech
§ Comprehending a range of accents
§ Making processing more automatic: improving accuracy, speed, and capacity
C. Increasing language knowledge
§ Sound system (phonology): individual sounds, sound clusters and syllables, linking, reduction, rhythm, and intonation
§ Vocabulary (words and phrases), including recognizing pronunciation of known items
§ Grammar: recognizing the meaning in grammatical endings (like -ing), words (like prepositions and modal auxiliary verbs such as can), and structures (like passive or present perfect)
§ Discourse: typical organizational structures of lectures, newscasts, discussions, etc.; how speakers introduce and shift topics and comments
IV. In groups, discuss the problems you are having in listening:
1) Situations/settings
2) Type of content
3) Particular speakers
Consider these for planning and for independent projects:
V. Discuss details of independent projects
Homework 1: Listen to www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRzZuVqyAQI&NR=1. Write a brief (1 paragraph) summary of what you think happened in this scene and what it meant for Tesla's life.
Homework 2: Think about your independent project. Come prepared to discuss options.