OPIE D701 - Academic Listening/Note-taking/Speaking

• Student accurately records main points and supporting details from short academic mini-lectures.
• Student converses in group activities in a clearly participatory manner, supports assertions during group discussions, and integrates his/her point of view with information from other sources.
• Student demonstrates awareness of his/her pronunciation weaknesses, including stress and intonation, and regularly tries to self-correct.
• Student identifies organizational structure, understands supporting information, and recognizes and understands transition devices which signal changes in focus in short academic lectures.
• Student is developing ability to listen critically, beginning to recognize and understand rhetorical questions, repetition, speaker’s point of view, etc.
• Student successfully uses notes to respond to both oral and written questions, to participate in group discussions, or to summarize the lecture.
• Student understands main ideas of short (5-15 minute) academic lectures after pre-listening activities to activate background knowledge and to introduce and practice content-related vocabulary.
• Student uses a well-organized note-taking format that clearly reveals relationships between main and supporting information, effectively uses symbols and abbreviations, and develops a consistent note-taking format.