Book

- Title: Academic Listening Encounters

- Author: Kim Sanabria

- Publisher: Cambridge University Press

- Published: April 4^st, 2004

- Level: Intermediate ( non-native speaker of English preparing  to study in English at the community college or university level)

- Genre: reading materials with four-skill

COURSE EVALUATION

   This book was designed for non-native speaker of English preparing to study in English at the community college or university level and for native speakers of English who need to improve their academic skills for further study. The series consists of academic books help students improve their reading, study skills and writing and academic listening encounters books concentrate on listing, note-taking, and discussion skills.



The three main skills developed in the books are listening, note taking, and discussion. In addition to the content and vocabulary of what they hear, students are challenged by different accents, speeds of delivery, and other features of oral discourse. Tasks in the books guide students in techniques for improving their listening comprehension. These tasks also develop note-taking skills in a structured format that teaches students to write down what they her in ways that make it easier to retrieve the information. After these practice comes an invitation to discuss what they have heard, voice their opinions, compare their experiences, and articulate and their own. Additionally, each chapter gives students the opportunity to work on a project related to the exchange viewpoints with other class members, so making the material topic, such as conducting a survey or undertaking research, and teaches them the skills necessary to present their finding.

Similarities between yellow rubric and my rubric:

• The goals and objectives were distinctly appropriate for learning in this course.
• The course provides a variety opportunity for students to be active participants in the instruction, engaging them in them listening, reading, speaking and writing in English.

• Instructional resources have objectives that are clearly focused on language functions and opportunities for an integrated approach to language learning.

Differences between yellow rubric and my rubric:



-  Yellow rubric’s categories have more contents than mine. It was divided contents in detail but my  rubric consist wasn't very well organized in detail, such as, Yellow rubric Provide a variety of strategies for teachers, e.g. direct instruction or paired/group projects and Provide support materials and parent support materials.



I'd recommend this text book for intermediated college students and for preparing to go on to college who need to improve their academic skills for further study, such as, listing, note-taking, and discussion skills. The book was focus on intermediated level, but the vocabulary and topics was difficult for student who doesn’t have any background of American culture. But the textbook provide various materials and the content of the textbook meets the goals and objectives appropriately. To be more valuable this textbook, Teacher should prepare variety materials for helping the students the opportunity to take creative control of the topic at hand.