Active Listening: Introducing Skills for Understanding Student's book [Paperback]

Marc Helgesen (Author), Steven Brown (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0521398819 | ISBN-13: 978-0521398817 | Publication Date: July 28, 1995

This book helps students listen for gist and specific information, to make inferences and to progress to content-based activities. Introducing Skills for Understanding is the high-beginning level of the Active Listening series. By activating students' knowledge of a topic before they listen, the text gives them a frame of reference to make intelligent predictions about what they will hear. Students learn to listen through a careful balance of activities, including listening for gist, listening for specific information, and making inferences.

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Book Description

Introducing Skills for Understanding is the high-beginning level of the Active Listening series. By activating students' knowledge of a topic before they listen, the text gives them a frame of reference to make intelligent predictions about what they will hear. Students learn to listen through a careful balance of activities, including listening for gist, listening for specific information, and making inferences.

Product Details

• Paperback: 79 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (July 28, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521398819
• ISBN-13: 978-0521398817
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,445,742 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best ESL Listening Activities Book, February 6, 2002

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Catherine Greene (Silver Spring, MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Active Listening: Introducing Skills for Understanding Teacher's edition (Paperback)

I have worked with hundreds of books and materials teaching EFL/ESL in Asia and the U.S., and this book has the some best listening activities out of everything else that I have seen. One of my favorite features is the that the cassette uses a great variety of voices and accents.

2.0 out of 5 stars Caution: This Is Strictly For ESL Students, April 29, 2004

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Robert C. Dean (Lancaster, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Active Listening: Introducing Skills for Understanding Cassettes (2) (Audio Cassette)

This title is really misrepresented as being for general use. In fact, it is strictly for those who are well along in the process of learning to speak and understand English.