IE Active Listening & Academic Skills
In IE Active Listening, you will be exposed to streaming media, documentaries and popular films based on the themes in the chart below. These themes are shared with your IE Writing and IE Core courses. For the Academic Skills course in your sophomore year, you will be listening to recorded lectures on the subjects of literature, linguistics, and communications. You will learn how academic lectures are organized, and how to take effective lecture notes.
| IEA Listening I | IEA Listening II | IEA Listening III | Academic Skills |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Childhood | 1. Changing Technology | 1. Relationship | 1. Literature |
| 2. Urban Life | 2. Workplace | 2. Cross-Cultural Values | 2. Linguistics |
| 3. Food | 3. Geography | 3. Environment | 3. Communications |
| 4. Travel | 4. Biography | 4. The Media |
Your classes will be held in our new language labs at the Sagami-Hara campus and you will be able to listen to the materials in our self-access areas as well. A booklet of activities and assignments for each course is available in the university bookstore.
“Self-directed listening” sites
Use the following sites for the self-directed listening part of the new IE Active Listening course:
Listening Resources for Language Learners (many of these include transcripts)
Challenging Listening Materials Intended for Natives
LINKS to YouTube videos connected with the IE Active Listening themes
You might want to make use of the some of the following resources related to environmental issues as alternatives to YouTube:
- Ecologist is a British ecological magazine offering videos on environmental issues around the world.
- Green Channel is part of Discovery Network. It recently featured videos about the world’s greenest homes.
- Greenpeace International offers videos describing environmental problems and their solutions.
- National Geographic has videos on environmental issues and animal-related news.
- 101 East is a program featuring developments in Asia and includes stories about environmental problems.
- Public Broadcasting Network presents videos from the program “Nature,” on such topics as the American eagle.
- Scientific American introduces a variety of environmental issues through videos at its website, including a census on jaguars in Central America.