Термины в модуле (57) global language

Real-Life Listening Situations

• Interviews 

• Instructions 
• Loudspeaker announcements 
• Radio news 
• Committee meetings 
• Shopping encounters 
• Theater 
• Telephone calls 
• Lessons or lectures 
• Conversation and gossip 
• Television 
• Storytelling

Spoken Discourse

Conversations, arguments, or speeches

listening comprehension

understanding what you hear

listening for gist

Getting a general understanding of something you hear, eg listening to the weather forecast and deciding you might need to take an umbrella when you go out.

listening for detail

listening to find out and extract specific information

reading comrehension

understanding what you have read

metacognitive strategies

-Good readers use these to think about and have control over their reading 

-Before reading: they clarify their purpose forlistening and preview the text
-During reading: they monitor their understanding, adjusting their reading speed to fit the difficulty of the text and "fixing up" any comprehension problems they have
-After listening: they check their understanding of what they have listened

Global English

A form of shared English that has emerged out of English becoming the dominant international lingua franca. Increasingly it seeks to remove the irregularities and inconsistencies to make itself easier for second-language learners