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2011 Academic Lecture Comprehension 1

Yoshio Ueno, 2011 Coordinator yueno@waseda.jp

Office: 51-05-09A Extension: 73-3791

red: requiredgreen: useful to lower-level students

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Outline

Course Overview Course Goals Textbook and Materials Course Schedule Suggested Teaching Plan Assessment and grading Teacher’ Responsibilities ALC1 Teacher’s CD Questions, Comments, and Suggestions

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Course Overview：ALC1

Required course for first-year students One 90-minute session per week 11 weeks (including the orientation) Approximately 45 students per class

Placed by TOEIC-IP placement test scores three documents in the booklet

Course Syllabus Student Performance Record Sheet

both on the university’s web syllabus and on CELESE homepage Assessment Details for Teachers

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Course Goals: ALC1

7 goals See Course Syllabus and Student Performance Record

Sheet.

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Textbook and Materials (1/7)

textbook teacher’s CD set teacher’s DVD ALC1 Teacher’s CD in-house online supplementary materials

www.celese.sci.waseda.ac.jp

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Textbook and Materials (2/7)Textbook

teacher’s book Intermediate Listening Comprehension transcripts and answer keys

student’s book Academic Lecture Comprehension No transcripts or answer keys Different cover Don’t give out transcript copies.

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Textbook and Materials (3/7)Chapter Organization

I. PrelisteningA. Listening PreparationB. Preview of Vocabulary and SentencesC. Rhetorical Listening Cues

II. Listening A. Initial Listening (on CD & DVD)B. Mental Rehearsal and Review of the Talk (on CD)C. Consolidation (on CD)

III. PostlisteningA. The Comprehension Check (on CD)B. The Listening Expansion: Task 1 and Task 2 (on CD)C. LISTENING FACTOIDS (on CD)

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Textbook and Materials (4/7)Lecture Types and Lengths

ChronologyChapter 2 – Pompeii (330 words; approx. 3m)

ProcessChapter 4 – The Internet (593 words; 4m)Chapter 5 – Language (740 words; 5m40s)

Classification/DefinitionChapter 7 – A Tidal Wave (247 words; 2m20s) Chapter 8 – Levels of Language Usage (572 words; 4m)

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Textbook and Materials (5/7)Lecture Recordings

Teacher’s DVD Teacher’s CD set

A. Initial Listening (fast, DVD sound)B. Mental Rehearsal and Review of the Talk

(very slow, shortened and simplified with soothing music)

C. Consolidation (slower than Initial Listening)

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Textbook and Materials (6/7)Students’ Access to CDs

textbook CDs and textbook DVD on campus

MDL library: 61-03-303 (Room 303, 3rd Floor, Building 61)

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Textbook and Materials (7/7)Online Supplementary Materials

Vocabulary Lists (self-study) List 1 (for take-home vocab section in Test 1) List 2 (for take-home vocab section in Test 2)

For each chapter/lecture type: Note Taking Materials

Characteristics/How to Take Notes/About This Lecture Practice Lecture (recorded) Supplementary Reading

Vocabulary worksheets (on ALC1 Teacher’s CD)

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ACL1 Course Schedule

See Course Syllabus. See “Class Schedule” at the end of Assessment

Details.

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Suggested Teaching Plan (1/7) preparing for a new chapter

Homework (assigned at the end of Part 2 of each chapter)

Read the following section of a new chapter: textbook “Listening Preparation” “Preview of Vocabulary and Sentences” “Rhetorical Listening Cues” online supplementary reading online “Characteristics,” “How to Take Notes” and

“About This Lecture”

Do the vocabulary worksheet.

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Suggested Teaching Plan (2/7): Part 1 of each chapter

Check homework Discuss/explain SOME of the following:

textbook “Listening Preparation” (Q&A as pair work)

“Rhetorical Listening Cues” (Q&A as pair work)

online supplementary reading online “Characteristics,” “About This

Lecture”

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Suggested Teaching Plan (3/7): Part 1 (continued)

“Preview of Vocabulary and Sentences” pair work: Read and Ask “What does XXX mean?” dictation, reading aloud, look-up-and-read, etc. ask and answer (yes/no, wh-questions)

“Initial Listening” (DVD or CD “consolidation”) Understand main points and structure

two simple questions about content and structure to help focus on the content and structure

Take brief notes

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Suggested Teaching Plan (4/7): Part 1 (continued)

Homework SOME of the following:

Review vocabulary/sentences Answer “Expanding on the Information in

the Talk” Prepare content questions about the lecture Listen to on-line Practice Lectures Visit MDL library (61-03-303) and listen to

CDs.

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Suggested Teaching Plan (5/7): Part 2 of each chapter

Warm up: “preview of vocabulary and sentences” Discuss/explain homework; Q&A about Session One “Consolidation” (CD)

Take (detailed) notes (worksheets with blanks). Each notes 1 point. (See Assessment Details.) Share basic information for summary writing.

“The Comprehension Check” (CD) Answer prepared content questions “Recapping the Information from Your notes”

Helps summary writing

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Suggested Teaching Plan (6/7): Part 2 (continued)

Other sections of textbook “The Listening Expansion” “Listening Factoids”

Listening Quiz Four content questions and two structure questions See Assessment Details.

Homework Lecture Summary

Explain the guidelines before ch2 lecture summary. (See Course Syllabus.)

“Basics of Paragraph Writing” (on Teacher’s CD) Ch8 lecture summary is optional. See Assessment details.

Back to slide 13

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Suggested Teaching Plan (7/7):Tests and Homework Activities

Test 1 and Test 2 See Course Syllabus, Student Performance Record Sheet, and

Assessment Details. 15 minutes each vocabulary section: take-home

Standardized Final Test (during exam week) See Course Syllabus for brief description. prepared by CELESE and marked by each teacher

three homework activities (HWA) HWA1 and HWA2: application HWA3: revising summaries of Ch2,4,5,7 See Course Syllabus and Assessment Details

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Assessment and Grading

assessment by following: Student Performance Record Sheet Assessment Details

grading by Student Performance Record Sheet To pass the course:

Attendance: at least 2/3 (8 out of 11) Pass at least 5 goals out of 7 To pass a goal, at least 60% of that goal

Teachers’ Responsibilities

See “Teachers’ Assessment Responsibilities” at the end of Assessment Details.

g. Submit Student Performance Record Sheet (copy,excel) a copy of Test1 and Test2 a photo copy of HWA1, HWA2, and HWA3 of one of your

ALC students about the last two points

for the uniformity of the course to make a collection of questions and students’

examples

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ALC1 Teacher’s CD (1/2) 2011 ALC1 course syllabus (also from CELESE ALC1 site) Student Performance Record Sheet (also from CELESE

ALC1 site) Assessment Details for Teachers teachers’ workshop slides vocabulary worksheets (same)(optional: for lower-level

students) Vocabulary Lists 1&2 (same)(self-study)(for take-home

part of Test1 and Test2) supplementary reading texts (same) Basics of Paragraph Writing (same)(for explaining

summary writing guidelines)

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ALC1 Teacher’s CD (2/2) textbook vocabulary sample structure questions (for LQ structure questions) sample comprehension questions (for Reading

Comprehension part in Tests 1&2) test template (for Test1 and Test2) internet resources for lecture/listening comprehension

(for HWA1 and HWA2) websites for vocabulary activities (for take-home part of

Test1 and Test2) orientation handout draft (needs editing) grading (in Excel)(for calculating final grades)

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2011 Academic Lecture Comprehension 1

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