English Learning and Listening Skills

Contents: Preface. 1. Content-based language instruction. 2. IELTS impact on study. 3. Applied linguistics. 4. Sentence combining on the writing. 5. Grammar as resource for learning. 6. Grammatical change. 7. Grammar: teaching and learning. 8. Grammatical forms and constructions. 9. Listening English pronunciation. 10. Silence and word. 11. Reflective listening. 12. Speech language and listening. 13. Speaking and listening. Index.

"This basic skills of reading, writing, learning, reasoning, and general problem solving--including the more sophisticated aspects of reading and learning English--are less emphasized or neglected. It is my hope that my adoption of the style may gain more than it loses by giving a sense of doing a phenomenological investigation and by dealing with it in a lucid language which I have attempted to make thoroughly explicit. This book serves as sensible and practical overture about English language learning and listening skills from an Indian perspective. It has a training-oriented approach well suited to be used as a manual by teachers, trainers, students at the graduate and post-graduate levels as well as in B.Ed. and allied programmes." (jacket)