College Preparatory Listening and Notetaking for Students of English as a Second Language

Listening

1. To follow discussions and presentations
• Use pre-listening techniques to prepare for a listening task
• Identify purpose and/or issue, overall key idea, main ideas, and key details
• Use active listening strategies
• Identify and use discourse and conversational markers to follow the organization of a discussion or talk
• Follow ideas and information in both informal and formal presentations and discussions
• Identify relationships among ideas
• Refer to pre-listening and reference materials, and use context clues to determine meanings of unfamiliar words and phrases
• Use a variety of note-taking techniques
• Use notes to complete assignments
• Use notes to prepare for quizzes
2. To listen for discrete items
• Write from dictation
• Transcribe speech
• Listen for specific pronunciation elements (problematic sounds, special intonation patterns)

Reading and Writing
To prepare for, support, and extend listening

1. Follow written instructions
2. Recognize purpose/issue, overall key idea,  main ideas, and key details
3. Use context to determine meanings of unfamiliar words and phrases
4. Write notes, outlines, interview questions and answers, reports, summaries, and paragraphs
5. Use written materials in speaking tasks (e.g., presentations)

Accuracy
For self-assessment

1. Identify errors and develop a needs analysis chart

Classroom Skills
Take responsibility for the following:

1. attendance and punctuality
2. class work and assignments
3. participation and teamwork