<DIV><I>Academic Listening Strategies</I> offers additional listening comprehension practice and strategies for understanding lectures for students who are currently enrolled in a college or university. The exercises in this text will provide students with many opportunities to practice effective listening strategies.<br><BR>Unit 1 begins with a diagnostic exercise to help students identify areas of lecture comprehension that may be most difficult for them. In Unit 2, students are introduced to some key bottom-up features (sound or word-level patterns) in everyday speech and given helpful strategies to begin unscrambling the stream of language that they will encounter in lectures. Unit 3 gives students a detailed look at common patterns in lectures and presents additional strategies that will help them to understand definitions, opinions, and jokes.<br><BR>By the end of the book, students will gain the skills necessary to:<BR>" Prepare for lectures<BR>" Listen more effectively during lectures<BR>" Recognize what information may have been missed<BR>" Compensate for missed information with methods other than reading and rereading the assigned texts.<BR><BR>The book is also sold packaged with the DVDs. The DVDs are NOT sold separately.</DIV>