EFS 693B - STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Listening and Communication
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EFS 693B
Notes: 3 - 1
I. Warmup – http://current.com/items/89939743/twitter_news_overload.htm.
II. Homework: quiz on "No Time to Think"
III. Continuation of "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/
IV. The English sound system - an overview
A. Basic sounds (phonemes): http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#
B. Rhythm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_timing
C. Stress: www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/word-stress.htm
D. Intonation: www.americanaccent.com/intonation.html
E. Linking: www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/linking.htm
F. Reduced forms: www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/ReducedForms.html
V. Listening to dialects
A. Background
1. What is a dialect? (regional, national, ethnic, social, professional...)
2. What do you know about dialects in your country?
B. Characteristics of dialects
1. Accent (differences in III above and pronunciation of basic sounds)
2. Vocabulary
3. Grammar
C. Examples: www.elllo.org: the English Language Listening Lab Online
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4538138 : This I Believe audio/text essays
Homework: Go to www.elllo.org.
1) Listen to two interviews from someone from a country other than the US, Canada, or your native country. For the first one, listen first without the text and then read the transcript; for the second, read the transcript first and then listen to the interview without it. Think about the differences between these two procedures for helping you improve your listening and be prepared to discuss in class.
2) Explore the rest of the elllo site and think about how you might use it to help meet your needs.
3) Start working on your independent project. Plan to do at least three 40-minute sessions by this Sunday.
4) (optional) Try listening to an essay on the "This I Believe" site.