Seminars on Language and Intercultural Teaching
November 16, 2007
Every person in this life has something to teach me — and as soon as I accept that, I open myself to truly listening. ~ Catherine Doucette
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. ~ Ernest Hemingway
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~ Robert Frost
I think I'll learn more from listening. Anything I would say I already know. ~ Anonymous student explaining while she did not wish to participate in a discussion, quoted in Christian Science Monitor
Pre-Seminar Homework
Content
1. What is listening? What is academic listening? What skills and strategies are necessary to listen well in academic contexts?
2. Learning by listening from the Dartmouth Academic Skills Center
3. Dealing with content overload!
- Summarizing and simplifying material
- Note taking tips
- Deconstructing a lecture: organizational patterns and language
- Reference, ellipses, and cohesion in spoken academic talk
4. 10 Bad listening habits from Nichols (1960)
