This course is designed to help you better understand spoken English, particularly academic lectures，TED talks, IELTS listening and online English courses, as well as to help you develop your note-taking skills while listening.

  This course will provide you with guided instruction on how to follow a lecture and the opportunity to practice listening to similar lectures to the ones you will meet in your future studies.

 通过在线课程学习，对课程教学内容进行梳理、补充和凝练，有助于你在课堂外也能够及时、随时进行复习和听力训练。通过师生在线互动，有助于老师更好掌握你的实际学习情况、及时解决你在学习中遇到的实际问题，不断提高听力水平。

To grasp macroskills and microskills in academic listening:

• Macroskills include such things as:
• making use of lecture introductions
• identifying key ideas
• distinguishing key points from examples
• Microskills focus on understanding linguistic features of spoken English such as:
• note-taking basics
• different organizational plans used in lectures

Listening - English for Academic Study/ Collin Campbell, Jonathan Smith/ Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

Learn to Listen Listen to Learn/ Roni S. Lebauer/ Longman.