 LISTENING
COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES  |
| TEXTBOOK TITLE |
DESCRIPTION |
Consider the Issue
1995
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For high-intermediate to advanced
level ESL learners. Presents issues taken from radio
broadcasts. Features listening strategies and critical
thinking activities and allow for student discussion. |
From the Start
1987
|
Ideal for beginning English speakers.
Each phrase represented by photos. Offers basic vocabulary
and structure in realistic language situations. |
Listen & Say it Right in English
1992
|
Basic listening and conversation text
designed to teach high-beginning and intermediate students
of English when to use formal and everyday spoken
English. Audio and written exercises included |
Listening and Recall
1986
|
For high-beginning to low-intermediate
students of English. Develops student’s ability
to comprehend lectures, take notes, recall, restate,
and discuss lecture material. Written activities at end
of lesson included. |
Listening Comprehension,
Advanced
1996
|
For advanced learners of English.
Offers comprehension, listening and note-taking skills
enhancement. Pre- and post-listening activities test
student’s comprehension of lesson. |
Listening Comprehension,
Intermediate
1994
|
For intermediate learners of English.
Offers an academically-focused listening program centered
around a series of lectures. Exercises test comprehension
skills. |
Listening Dictation
1976
|
Text Reinforces basic grammar and
focuses on essential skills in listening. Lessons teach
students to tune in to the “fast speech rules” of
spoken English. Audio files accompany text. |
| Northstar Listening & Speaking
|
Audio program. |
People at Work
1990
|
Workbook teaches students the essential
principles of phonics, provides practice in spelling
patterns and sound-letter correspondence, and gives students
plenty of opportunity to build their vocabulary in context. |
Phrase by Phrase
1987
|
Systematically organized text-tape
program helps learners of English gain listening discrimination
and accuracy, fluency, and confidence in oral production
of connected discourse. Listening and written components. |
Pronunciation Contrasts in English
1973
|
For beginning students of English.
Text offers, language lists designed to pinpoint those
pronunciation contrasts which can be expected to give
trouble to various language speakers; comparative charts
and diagrams of sound production; and compilations of
minimal pairs of words and sentences for practice. |
Pronunciation Drills
1983
|
For low – intermediate students
of English. Fast-paced pronunciation practice helps students
internalize the systems of phonology and morphology of
the language. Presentation and practice materials are
provided for all vowel, consonant, and stress phonemes;
for the most frequently-occurring intonation patterns;
and for the pronunciation of grammatical endings. |
Pronunciation Drills in Depth
1982
|
For intermediate – advanced
students of English. Text provides extensive aural/oral
practice through vowel, stress and intonation treatment
as well as consonants and spelling. |
Pronouncing American English
1997
|
Pronunciation text for high-beginning-level
learners of English. Students can learn to correct their
speech through sounds review and stress, intonation and
syllable stress exercises. |
| Sound & Style of American English |
3 – book series manual with
tape accompaniment that introduces English learners to
patterns of pitch change in American English that they
can use to reduce their foreign accent. |
Understanding
Spoken English
1983
|
For intermediate ESL learners. Lessons
are based on 18 anecdotes, followed by support exercises
utilizing the skills of reading, writing and speaking.
Material emphasizes practice in listening to conversational
English, vocabulary building and active processing of
listening context through language production tasks. |
Vocabulary In Use
Basic
Intermediate
High-Intermediate
1999-2001
|
Designed to help ESL learners improve
their English vocabulary. Text teaches useful techniques
for learning vocabulary that students can use after completing
the book. Exercises follow lessons. Index gives pronunciation
for single-word entries and 2 word compounds, using the
symbols from the International Phonetic Alphabet. |
Whaddaya Say?
2001
|
For intermediate to high-intermediate
learners of ESL. Familiarizes students with the rapid
speech commonly used in everyday life. Helps students
recognize the difference between careful, slow speech
and relaxed, fast speech. |
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