Listening and Note-taking Skills
The Listening Skills and Note-taking course runs for 4 weeks and aims to help students get the most from lectures, with some work done also on listening in seminar situations. The classes will introduce strategies to deal with the problems students experience in having to combine intensive listening and note-taking. The course will be delivered online in term 1 of 2020. There will be a mixture of asynchronous self-study (for 1-2 hours per week approximately) and one hour synchronous live sessions using Collaborate on BLE.
Areas covered may include:
- Functions of a lecture
- Identifying key ideas and following arguments
- Selecting and prioritising information- signposting language
- Key words and new vocabulary
- Note-taking techniques-developing abbreviations, acronyms, signs and symbols
- Laying out notes- linear and other styles
- Paraphrasing and summarising
- Listening to accents and connected speech
- Listening to group discussion
Scope and syllabus
This course runs in block 1 only.
Timetable
The timetable becomes available when the block 1 application form is released around the end of September.
Suggested reading
Espeseth, M. (2004) Academic Listening Encounters series , Cambridge: CUP
Lynch, T. (2004) Study Listening: A Course in Listening to Lectures and Note Taking, Cambridge: CUP