This course will help non-native English speakers improve their listening and note-taking skills for the purpose of listening to academic lectures. You will learn techniques for improving your understanding and skills for taking more effective notes, and you will get lots of practice in using these. If you're planning to attend college classes in English, then this class is for you.
This course is part of the Learn English: Advanced Academic Speaking and Listening Specialization
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Welcome
What is Academic Listening and Why is It Important?
Identifying Topic and Purpose
Identifying Main Ideas and Details
Identifying Stance and Speaker Attitude
Reviews
- 5 stars73.40%
- 4 stars17.35%
- 3 stars2.96%
- 2 stars2.05%
- 1 star4.22%
TOP REVIEWS FROM ACADEMIC LISTENING AND NOTE-TAKING
The course was well planned and I appreciate all the resources that the UCI has offered through the course. I learned a lot in this course.
It´s a little repetitive, but the information is good and I was able to develop my academic listening skills.
I would like to say thank you to the teachers who taught me and help me to complete this course. Now I know that note-taking is not too difficult and my listening skiill is better.
Thank you.
It is very useful and very interesting course i learned a lot of skills from this course and these skills which i learned from this course will help me in my whole life regarding my studies
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