This week we started with an introduction to the course. I discussed listening as a cognitive process and discussed the elements that can make ease or interfere comprehension. We took a diagnostic test and then review the resultsin class. Listening involves making meaning from incoming oral language. However, it is not merely an acustic process and neither is it a mere linguistic process. Previous knowledge, expectations and perceptions all influence the way we go about that meaning-making process.
Another aspect we covered was note-taking. As college students you are exposed to lectures, movies, videos and many other oral (spoken) sources of information. Naturally, our memory is limitted and we cannot rely on it completely to keep and retrieve all that information. Therefore, we need some method to register that information in a channel that can be later consulted. Most of us usually take notes, but often those notes are disorganizde and difficult to make sense of. On the other hand, we usually take notes that we rarely go back to. Considering this, we studied some systematic techniques for note-taking. In case you missed that class, or in case you just would like to review, here are two of the videos we watched in class:
You can also search for your own videos and proposals. You will probably be surprised to find there are plenty of videos, tips, methods and techniques for effective note-taking.
Next week we will discuss the differences between written and spoken language and some general scheme to classify oral text typologies. Also, we will start studying the first genre, that is, news reports.
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