Intermediate Listening Comprehension: Understanding and Recalling Spoken English, Second Edition

This text is designed to familiarize students with the major rhetorical patterns of formal, spoken English.-- Focuses on major rhetorical patterns (chronological, process, definition/classification, compare/contrast, and causal analysis)-- Lectures from across the curriculum (history, science, anthropology, American studies, language arts)-- Carefully sequenced progression of activities-- Spiralled rhetorical patterns, vocabulary, and structures-- Integrated speaking practice