Academic Listening Encounters: American Studies is an intermediate text that uses a sustained-content approach to help students develop the listening, note-taking, and discussion skills they need to meet the demands of academic courses. The academic content focus in this text is American history and culture. The Student Audio CD in the back of the book contains the lecture portion of the Audio Program for extra practice.

Intermediate

•   High-interest topics include civil rights, traditional American values in relation to current values, the blues and country music, sports, and the globalization of American slang. • Each chapter explores its topic through a warm-up listening activity, informal interviews, and a two-part academic lecture. • Pre-listening tasks expose students to vocabulary they will encounter in the interviews and lectures, and help them build background knowledge of the topic. • Students practice crucial listening skills, such as summarizing what they have heard, listening for implied information, and listening for specific information. • Note-taking skills presented include using symbols and abbreviations, and organizing notes. • The listening materials serve as stimuli for note-taking activities, individual and group presentations, and discussion.

Click on the links below to download PDF samples from the Student's Book:

Student's Book, Chapter 9

Academic Listening Encounters: American Studies Plan of the Book

The skills taught and practiced in Academic Listening Encounters: American Studies and all Academic Encounters books help prepare students for the TOEFL^® iBT test.

Academic Listening Encounters: American Studies Task Index

To order:
Student's Book     978-0-521-68432-3