Advanced ESL Listening

Catalog description

This course is not for native speakers of English. This course prepares students for the demands of college-level academic listening tasks. The course aims to enhance students' ESL listening skills and to provide strategies and practice for listening to instructors and classmates who use a variety of speech patterns and vocabulary in class lectures and discussion. Students will practice listening to lectures from a variety of academic disciplines and will analyze the material that they hear. Students will also practice strategies for active participation in lectures and class discussion.