EFS 693B - STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Listening and Communication
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EFS 693B
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I. Warmup – www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpLc5nM64RM. What is this about? See also www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv99WA0xyNk
Discuss: Is this a problem for society? For you personally?
II. Homework review: read your summary to your classmates; compare what each of you noticed.
III. Review: Three keys to improving listening.
A. Learning to comprehend more
effectively
§ Getting the 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
§ Vocabulary (words and phrases)
§ Grammar
§ Discourse
IV. Discussion of independent projects: spend 2 hours
or more per week with media/materials that will help you improve.
Examples:
·
Recording of professor
·
Movie or TV show
·
Websites
o
CNN student news:
www.cnn.com/studentnews/
o
Scientific
American Frontiers: www.pbs.org/saf/
o
English, Baby!: www.englishbaby.com
o
Randall’s
listening lab: www.esl-lab.com
Note: anything else is possible, but try to pick something that is interesting, familiar, and useful.
V. Watch "The importance of selective information," Carly Fiorina: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1716.
A. Prepare for listening--what should you do?
B. Listen once straight through without pausing; discuss the main ideas.
C. Listen a second time--try to get more details; think about some specific questions you might have before listening.
D. Dictation. Take a few sentences and try to write them down verbatim (exact words).
E. Think about Fiorina's speaking style. What makes her easy or difficult to understand?
F. Review the language support options for this site. Go over vocabulary profile in the transcript: http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/bnc/
Homework 1: Listen to www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHGcvj3JiGA, a Google tech talk on information overload titled "No Time to Think" by David Levy. You do not have to listen to the question session at the end but may if you wish. Do the following:
1. Prepare for listening by reading the abstract and bio of the speaker. Think about what you might hear him say.
2. Listen closely as you would to a lecture and take good notes. Pause every few minutes and try to summarize what you heard without looking at your notes.
3. Make a note of any section that is confusing (check the time stamp) and return to it for a second viewing.
4. Bring your notes to class Monday: I will give you a quiz on the material and you may use your notes to help you answer.
Homework 2:
Spend at least one hour exploring and trying out possible material for your independent project.
Consider at least 2 options and come
prepared to discuss them in the individual meetings next week.
1. What listening objective(s) do you want to work
on and why? (e.g., improve processing, increase vocabulary, understand
culture...)?
2. What materials have you located that would help
(at least two sources: could be online, broadcast, CD/DVD...)?
3. How do you plan to use the materials? (note: you will need to do at
least two hours per week, divided among at least three sessions)