Advanced Listening is an elective course offered in the spring semester for freshmen or sophomores who need more training in order to cope with the language requirement of English majors. In addition to exposure to a variety of listening phenomena essential for comprehension of authentic, natural English, the students will learn to listen selectively; i.e. to predict information and select cues surrounding information. They will be guided to monitor their comprehension while listening by focusing on the main parts of the discourse and by noticing these parts they may use to construct their understanding of the meaning of whole of the text through inferring.

This course is aimed at providing students with multiple sceneries where people exercise different materials in exposing students to a variety of listening phenomena essential for the comprehension of authentic, natural English. Moreover, in the completion of this course, students should be able to grasp the keywords in different settings and situations. Students should also acquire more advanced and in-depth listening skills, including conversations with more than one speaker, speakers with accents, advertisements, and other situations. Furthermore, students should also gain a clearer understanding of how English speakers use expressions, slang, and phrases.

Listening Advantage 4
Cengage Learning Asia Pte Ltd
Tom Kenny, Tamami Wada, and Jamie Blacker