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    英語総合講座III-10
  Means and strategies to improve listening comprehension skills in news in American English
HISAIZUMI TSURUO 
久泉 鶴雄
4単位 
3〜4 
前期 
11002110

The objective of the course is to help students acquire advanced skills in listening comprehension of news which is broadcast in American English.
TV news from CNN and ABC, “Paul Harvey’s News and Commentary” or announcements from American Forces Network will be recorded into a cassette tape in LL and studied both at home and in class.
Students will be helped to develop broader perspectives on the ability of listening comprehension and expand the range of skills to reduce the difficulties of understanding news in American English.  
By the end of this course, the students should be able to comprehend a variety of news more easily than now.  They are also encouraged to have a broader background knowledge and acquire a larger vocabulary by reading English newspapers.
The highlights of this course will be the studying of rapid speech.  If you deepen your experiences for clarifying various types of sound changes coming from weak forms, missing sounds, linking and so on, I am sure listening to news in English will be easier.
All my other Eiso-III courses will deal with different teaching materials throughout each semester, so you can take more than one of my Eiso-III courses, if you like, to improve your listening comprehension skills.

評価方法: One daily transcription test (50%) and class participation (50%).

テキスト名: No textbooks.  Handouts given out.

注意事項: Bring two 60-minute normal Type I cassette tapes to LL.

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1. TV and radio news in English available now
2. Strong and weak forms of grammatical words
3. Finding topics
4. Central ideas
5. Summarization
6. Difficulties in listening comprehension
7. Integrated skills necessary
8. Common sense, background knowledge, cross cultural information
9. Syntactic approach
10. Stress change, pitch, juncture
11. Strong and weak forms of conjunctions
12. Sentence structure
13. Ellipsis
14. Definite and indefinite articles
15. Context
16. Strong and weak forms of prepositions
17. Strong and weak forms of auxiliaries
18. Linking of words
19. Detailed studies in articles
20. Comparison of ‘an’, ‘in’ and ‘and’
21. Studies in ‘with’
22. Studies in ‘from’
23. Studies in pronouns
24. Sound patterns
25. Set phrases in news
26. Further studies
27. Further studies
28. Further studies
29. Further studies
30. Further studies