Course Title: English Listening (I II)
Course Code03013
Number of Credits: 3 for I and 2 for II
Teaching Hours: 48 for I and 32 for II
Prerequisites: None
Overview
l Content and objectives
Combining intensive and extensive listening ,the listening course aims at training students in listening and understanding audio-taped materials ,soundtrack, news (VOA, BBC, etc) and various programs ,in the form of conversations, interviews, short exchanges or other speech events that deal with different topics. This class will help you increase your ability to understand both formal and informal varieties of English and retain and utilize what you have understood. It focuses on English for academic purposes, but there will still be listening training in other areas.
l Skills and strategies
Taking notes on specific information
Inferring main ideas
Identifying stated illocutionary forces
Inferring illocutionary forces
Following instructions
Writing an outline
Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes is achieved by the following means:
l CLASSWORK
Classes will involve a variety of listening exercises and some discussions of the grammatical and sound systems of English. You will listen to lectures and other spoken materials on videotapes, Internet websites and DVDs. Since there is a definite relationship between listening and speaking, you will be expected to participate actively in all class and small group discussions.
HOMEWORK
Short optional and required assignments will use listening materials available on the Web or audio or videotaped materials.
l Take a daily note while listening to lectures, conversations and news stories
followed by identification of main ideas.
l Submission of weekly journals via the internet reporting on service learning
experiences.
l Assignments from the textbook, news materials, soundtrack, etc after listening via multimedia.
Delivery method
Group work, classroom learning, presentation, Multimedia
Assessment
The mid-term and final examination is adopted in this course. The coursework is assessed in terms of attendance, group discussion in class and homework.
Coursework 20%
Mid-term Exam 30%
Final Exam 50%
Reference Materials
l Listening This Way (1 and 2), 2nd edition, edited by Zhang Minlun, published by Higher Education Press
l A Reading Sampler (3):Virginia French Allen; English Teaching Division, Educational and Cultural Affairs International Communication Agency, Washington, D.C.,USA.
l A Reading Spectrum (4): Virginia French Allen ;Information Center Service ,English Language Teaching Staff U.S., Information Agency, Washington, D.C.,USA
l Barron’s How To Practice for the TOEFL: Pamela J. Sharpe ; Barron’s Educational Series,INC.,1979 .
l Developing Business Contacts: Nick Brieger and Jeremy Comfort; Prentice Hall International English Language Teaching, UK , 1993
l Easier Scientific English Practice: G.C. Thornley ; New Edition , Longman Group Limited ,1972
l English for International Banking and Finance: Jim Corbett; Cambridge University Press ,1990
l English for Life (People and Places):V.J Cook; Pergamon Press,1980
l English for the Teacher: Mary Spratt ; Cambridge University Press ,1994
l English in Situations : R.O’ Neill and the Research and Development Staff of the Eurocentre Bournemouth ; Oxford University Press,London,1970
l Good for Business: Mark Fletcher and Roger Hargeraves; Nelson,1983
l Health Education Course Book 5:Betsy Lim Hai Boey; Curriculum Planning and Development Division Ministry of Education , Singapore, EPB Publishers,1994,1997
l Heart Health 4,5,6 : Training and Health Education Department , Ministry of Health, Singapore , SNP Publishing Pte Ltd., 1988
l International Business English :Leo Jones and Richard Alexander; Cambridge University Press ,1989
l Learning to Listen : Alan Maley and Sandra Moulding ; Cambridge University Press , 1984
l Listening In Action :Stephen Keeler; Longman Group U.K. Ltd. , 1988
l Listening in the Real World : Michael A Rost and Robert K.Stratton; Lingual House Publishing Company ,1978
l Listening Tasks for Intermediate students of American English : Sandra Schecter; Cambridge University Press,1984
l Listening to Living with People: V.J. Cook ; Pergamon Press ,1984
l Listening to People and Place : V.J. Cook and F.Chanbers ; Pergamon Press ,1984
l Longman First Certificate : Roy Kingsbury ; Longman Group Ltd.,1983
l New Generation (2): Heinemann; Colin Granger Digby Beaumont.
l Plain Speaking (1) :Wendy Harris ; Oxford University Press ,HongKong,1979
l Practicing for First Certificate: J.C. Templer, Heinemann Education Books , London,1983
l Progress to Proficiency : Leo Jones ; Cambridge University Press,1986, 1993
l Progressive Listening : John Pidcock; Nelson,1990
l Progressive Reading Series(3) :Virginia French Allen ; English Teaching Division , International Communication Agnecy , U.S.A.
l Put It in Words (1): Wendy Harris ; Oxford University Press ,HongKong,1979
l Reasons for Listening : David Scarbrough;Cambridge University Press , 1984
l Scientifically Speaking : English by Radio and Television ,BBC.
l Success with English (3): Geoffrey Broughton ed. : Penguin Books ,1970
l Task Listening : Lesley Blundell and Jackie Stokes; Cambridge University Press,1991
l Themes for Listening and Speaking : Carole Rokbinson and Helen Parker; Oxford University Press,1986
l This is a Recording : Barbara Fowler Swartz and Richard L. Smith; Prentice-Hall ,Inc., Englewood Ciffs ,New Jersey,1986
l Framework for First Certificate: Peter J. Davies ; Edward Arnold, A Division of Hodder and Stoughton,1983
l Britain Now : Catherine Addis ; BBC English , 1992
l The Listening File : Jeremy Harmer,Steve Elsworth ; Longman Group U.K. Ltd.,1989
l Cambridge Skills for Fluency Listening 1,2,3,4: Adrian Doff; Cambridge University Press ,1991, 1993, 1995
l BBC
l VOA