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developing academic listening skills to Science or Engineering master students they begin
to discuss the idea spontaneously.
The point is that some of them have already had first-hand experience of taking special
on-line courses relevant to their major field of knowledge. They speak about the ratio of
audio and reading materials in the courses, the difficulty of understanding the lecturer
/speaker, the importance of note taking, the difference of listening to any program just
for fun and for the purpose of sharing information with somebody else. As home-task
for the next class we usually have students get familiarized with the structure and
contents of
academicearth.org
website
–
one of our favorites
–
and compare it with the
educational sites they have known before. At the next class they report about the easier
access to the academicearth.org website resources in comparison with the MIT open
resources centre website, academic-like structure and content of the resource in
comparison with more popular science TED website content, about the number of
lectures in the courses of their interest, the average length of a lecture, the availability of
subtitles, the lecturers’ accents, etc. As this aspect of the course is based on students’
listening to the fraction of the lecture of their choice at home with consequent sharing
information with his/her group-mate in pair work, the freedom of choice and the variety
of their scientific interests provide live information exchange during the term. At the final
classroom discussion students willingly contribute with their comments on how valuable
the information from the course was for them, on communicative skills of the lecturers
and the ways they interact with the audience.
Another practically inexhaustible task for discussion especially for students majoring in
Humanities, Political sciences and the like is using websites of well-known newspapers.
One thing is theoretical knowledge about the difference between the popular and quality
newspapers in the UK or the different attitudes towards certain urgent issues of the
British and American press. However, the chance to see the difference in practice results
in more argumentative discussions including linguistic aspects.
The introduction of simulation strategy
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