Week

Topic

Assignment

1.          2/15

Course orientation & Ice Breaking

Why do you learn English?

British Councils: Listening downloads archive

Class meeting #1

2.          2/22

Self-Introduction: The English Listening Lounge

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab :

Randall's Introduction Tell Me About Your Self

Pre-Course Survey

Listening Habit Questionnaire

3.          3/1

Elllo Travel: Forms of transportation Road Trip  

What's Up in Taiwan

Listening Diary # 1

4.          3/8

Elllo: Movie Talks

American Rhetoric: Lean On Me

Movie Trailers and Preview

5.          3/15

VOA News: News Radio for English Learners

California Distance Learning Project

6.          3/22

Storytelling: Fairytale Dictation

The use of past tense

 Listening Diary # 2

7.          3/29

Radio Program: Radio Diaries

8.          4/4

Spring Break

 Listening Diary # 3

9.          4/12

Podcast: This American Life                            

10.      4/19

Mid-Term Exam

Class meeting #2

11.      4/26

Bob Dearborn's analysis on American Pie  

 Listening Diary # 4

12.      5/3

TED speeches: Daniel Pink, Jamie Olive, William Kamkwamba

13.      5/10

Audio books: "In Her Shoes" by Jennifer Weiner

 Listening Diary # 5

14.      5/17

NPR Booktalk "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion

15.      5/24

Listening to Lectures

 Class meeting #3

Listening Diary # 6

16.      5/31

Group recording project

17.      6/7

Test Preparation Strategies: TOEFL & IELTS

18.      6/14

Final Exam                                    Class meeting # 4