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	英語総合講座III-52 　　Means and strategies to improve listening comprehension skills in news in American English	HISAIZUMI TSURUO　 久泉　鶴雄 4単位　 3〜4　 後期

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The objective of the course is to help students acquire advanced skills in listening comprehension of news which is broadcast in American English. The similar course is offered as Proficiency English Course III-10 during the first semester but the content of this course is different although the format of the syllabus is the same. Radio news such as“Paul Harvey's News and Commentary”, 5-minute news or short announcements from American Forces Network, and TV news from CNN will be recorded into cassette tapes 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 or magazines. The highlights of this course will be the studying of rapid speech.  If you deepen your experiences in 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 select more than one of my Eiso-III courses, if you like, during the same semester or each of both semesters.

評価方法：

Grading comes from daily transcription test (50%) and class participation including the frequency of class attendance and the attainment of home assignment(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． Radio and TV news in American English available now ２． Strong and weak forms of grammatical words ３． Finding topics and lead ４． Central ideas ５． Summarization ６． Problems and difficulties in listening comprehension ７． Integrated skills necessary ８． Common sense, background knowledge, cross cultural information and constant guess work ９． Syntactic approach 10． Stress shifting, pitch, juncture 11． Strong and weak(reduced) forms of conjunctions 12． Clause structure 13． Ellipsis 14． Definite and indefinite articles 15． Contextual meaning 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 of some groups of auxiliaries 25． Set phrases in news 26． Further studies 27． Further studies 28． Further studies 29． Further studies 30． Further studies

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