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📚 What is Academic Listening?
Academic listening is a critical skill that involves actively processing, understanding, and analyzing spoken academic content such as lectures, presentations, and research discussions. Unlike casual listening, academic listening requires focused attention, note-taking strategies, and the ability to identify key information, supporting details, and relationships between ideas. This exercise focuses on a research study about student persistence in higher education.
🎧 Listen to the Audio Lesson
🔑 Key Learning Points
- Active Processing: Engaging mentally with academic content
- Note-taking: Recording key points and research findings
- Critical Analysis: Evaluating and connecting research ideas
- Academic Vocabulary: Understanding research terminology and concepts
Exercise 1: Multiple Choice (Questions 1-2)
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C
1
Participants in the learner persistence study were all drawn from the same
2
The study showed that when starting their course, older students were worried about
Exercise 2: Note Completion (Questions 3-7)
Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.
Research findings
| Social and Environmental Factors | Other Factors | Personal Characteristics |
|---|---|---|
| First level of importance Effective support |
Perceived success in study | Enjoyment of a |
| Second level of importance Positive experience at |
Good | Many in daily life |
| Third level of importance Good interaction with the |
No family problems | Capacity for multitasking |
Exercise 3: Note Completion (Questions 8-10)
Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.
Recommendations
- 8. Ask new students to complete questionnaires to gauge their level of
- 9. Train the selected students to act as
- 10. Outside office hours, offer help. Follow up students who miss deadlines
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