Active Listening: Building Skills for Understanding Teacher's edition - Softcover

Helgesen, Marc; Brown, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521398851 ISBN 13: 9780521398855

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Synopsis

This book helps students listen for gist and specific information, to make inferences and to progress to content-based activities. Building Skills for Understanding is the low-intermediate 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

Building Skills for Understanding is the low-intermediate 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521398851
• ISBN 13: 9780521398855
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 113