{"product_id":"academic-listening-strategies-julia-salehzadeh-9780472031443","title":"Academic Listening Strategies: A Guide to Understanding Lectures","description":"\u003ci\u003eAcademic Listening Strategies\u003c\/i\u003e offers additional listening comprehension practice and strategies for understanding lectures for students who are currently enrolled in a college or university. The exercises in this text, together with the lectures and short talks on the accompanying DVDs, will provide students with many opportunities to practice effective listening strategies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnit 1 begins with a diagnostic exercise to help students identify areas of lecture comprehension that may be most difficult for them. In Unit 2, students are introduced to some key bottom-up features (sound or word-level patterns) in everyday speech and given helpful strategies to begin unscrambling the stream of language that they will encounter in lectures. Unit 3 gives students a detailed look at common patterns in lectures and presents additional strategies that will help them to understand definitions, opinions, and jokes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy the end of the book, students will gain the skills necessary to: \u003cbr\u003e\" Prepare for lectures\u003cbr\u003e\" Listen more effectively during lectures\u003cbr\u003e\" Recognize what information may have been missed\u003cbr\u003e\" Compensate for missed information with methods other than reading and rereading the assigned texts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe video component includes four entire lectures, as well as several lecture segments and shorter informal talks. Also included are short audio selections of academic speech from the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE). All selections demonstrate actual and authentic speech in university lectures. All in all, more than 4 hours of listening material is offered on the three DVDs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThree DVDs are packaged with the book: DVD 1 includes Units 1 and 2; DVD 2 includes Unit 3; DVD 3 includes the Additional Practice Unit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe DVDs are NOT sold separately.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julia Salehzadeh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472031449\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472031443\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press ELT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.06h x 7.96w x 0.53d","brand":"Julia Salehzadeh","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43919894413567,"sku":"9780472031443","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4f52d5d1-ddc3-4d65-a703-b7e6a02025e6.jpg?v=1680812495","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/academic-listening-strategies-julia-salehzadeh-9780472031443","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}