Study Listening: Understanding Lectures and Talks in English

by Tony Lynch

Study Listening is a course for students who need to understand spoken English used in lectures, talks, seminars and presentations. It is suitable for students attending specialist courses given in English, and for professionals who need to understand spoken English in their careers. Study Listening is a graded course, through which students develop their listening efficiency. They are presented with a series of interesting authentic talks on varied topics, and ranging from short extracts to complete talks. Through this listening practice they learn to develop the essential skills of predictive listening, filtering important and unimportant information, summarising and note-taking. This course can be used in class, or for self-study preferably under the guidance of a teacher. The talks used in Study Listening were all recorded by speakers using notes - not delivering scripted lectures - and cover a wide range of topics. Both British and North American voices are included on the recordings.

96 pages, Paperback

First published December 15, 1983

About the author

Tony Lynch is Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Applied Language Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. There he directs and teaches pre-session and in-session academic English courses for international students, works in teacher education and supervises research students. Among his research interests are task recycling, listener autonomy, and ways of helping learners notice features of their own second language speech.