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Listening Strategies 2 with David Nunan
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A listening strategies workshop hosted by David Nunan. This video comes from a real teaching training course. This video will help new and experienced ESL teachers to teach listening in ESL classes.

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The six major theories have had a pervasive impact on the way we, both scientists and the general public, see ourselves. They are:
Sigmund Freud’s Psychodynamic Theory. The lectures discuss this theory, the earliest of the six, including such concepts as the Oedipus Complex and Freud’s five stages of psycho-sexual development. Although now widely disputed, Freudian thinking is deeply imbedded in our culture and constantly influences our view of human nature.
Erik Erikson’s Psycho-Social Theory. This is the theory that gave rise to the term "identity crisis." Erikson was the first to propose that the "stages" of human development spanned our entire lives, not just childhood. His ideas heavily influenced the study of personality development, especially in adolescence and adulthood.
John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth’s Integrated Attachment Theory. This was the first theory to focus primarily on the formation of parent-child relationships. It explains the connection between relationships that occur early in our lives and those that happen later, including romantic ones. Attachment theory has generated thousands of scientific studies, and has led to changes in many childcare policies, such as those allowing parents to stay with their children in hospitals.
Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory. This theory modified traditional learning theory developed by such behaviorists as B. F. Skinner, which was based on stimulus-response relationships. It considered learning to be no different among infants, children, adults, or even animals. Bandura’s approach is influential in such areas as the effect of media violence on children, and the treatment of problem behaviors and disorders.
Jean Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory. Piaget’s influence created a revolution in human development theory. He proposed the existence of four major stages, or "periods," during which children and adolescents master the ability to use symbols and to reason in abstract ways. This has been the most influential of the six major theories. In the 1970s and 1980s, it completely dominated the study of child development.
Lev Vygotsky’s Cognitive-Mediation Theory. Alone among the major theorists, Vygotsky believed that learning came first, and caused development. He theorized that learning is a social process in which teachers, adults, and other children form supportive "scaffolding" on which each child can gradually master new skills. Vygotsky’s views have had a large impact on educators.
Early Theorists: Locke, Rousseau, and even Darwin
To give you the best understanding of these theories, this course also explores the general history of the study of child development. It touches on the work of other important researchers, such as John Watson of Johns Hopkins University, who developed behaviorism, and Arnold Gesell of Yale, from whose work sprang such well-worn phrases as "just going through a stage" and "the terrible twos."
Professor Watson also discusses the era of observational research on children, which marked the beginnings of child study as a true science. This period was pioneered by scientists who began publishing detailed accounts of the development of their own children. These early "baby biographers" included Alfred Binet, who first developed intelligence testing in France, and even Charles Darwin.
You may be struck not only by how much we have learned about child development, but also by how much our attitudes toward children have changed. Until the beginning of the 19th century, there was no interest in child study and, in fact, no concern for children. Such factors as poverty and high infant mortality created an atmosphere in which children were barely tolerated, or used for labor.
In Paris in 1750, 33 percent of all newborns were left in foundling homes or on doorsteps; most died. In England, boys and girls as young as four were often sent to work in mines.
You will see how attitudes toward children gradually improved, due mostly to the efforts of physicians and religious leaders. And you will appreciate the tremendous contribution that two renowned philosophers, John Locke (1632–1704) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), have made to the field of child development. Their ideas about children—whether they are inherently good or bad, or whether they actively shape their environments or passively react to stimuli—still form much of the basis of our modern theories.
The lessons of this course are not simply about learning, behavior, and relationships in youth, but at any age. Taken as a whole, they provide our best answers to the questions of human nature—how we learn, adapt, and become who we are at every stage in life.

Course Lecture Titles

01. Introduction—The Value of Theories
02. The Early History of Child Study
03. Two Worldviews—Locke vs. Rousseau
04. Later History—Becoming Scientific
05. Freud’s Psychodynamic Theory
06. How We Gain Contact with Reality—The Ego
07. Freud’s Psycho-Sexual Stages
08. Erikson’s Psycho-Social Theory
09. Erikson’s Early Stages
10. Identity and Intimacy
11. Erikson’s Later Stages—Adult Development
12. Bowlby and Ainsworth’s Attachment Theory
13. How Nature Ensures That Attachment Will Occur
14. Development of Secure and Insecure Attachments
15. Early Attachments and Adult Relationships
16. Bandura’s Social Learning Theory
17. Bandura’s Self-Efficacy Theory
18. Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory
19. Piaget’s Early Stages
20. Concrete Operations
21. Piaget’s Last Stage
22. Vygotsky’s Cognitive-Mediation Theory
23. Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development
24. Conclusions—Our Nature and Development

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John Milne - The Long Tunnel
Elizabeth Laird - The Garden
Alwyn Cox - Dangerous Journey (Installation CD for beginner level)
T.C.Jupp - Rich Man Poor Man

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Why does West Virginia have a finger creeping up the side of Pennsylvania? Why are California and Texas so large when so many of the states in the ...

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The Seven Challenges: A Workbook and Reader About Communicating More Cooperatively features a structured, intensive exploration of seven challenging skills for a lifetime of better communication in work, family, friendship & community. This workbook proposes seven ways to guide your conversations in directions that are more satisfying for both you and your conversation partners.

A brief summary of each challenge is given in the paragraphs that follow, along
with some of the lifelong issues of personal development that are woven through each one. In Chapters One through Seven you will find expanded descriptions of each one, with discussions, examples, exercises and readings to help you explore each suggestion in action.

Challenge 1. Listen more carefully and responsively.
Challenge 2. Explain your conversational intent and invite consent.
Challenge 3. Express yourself more clearly and completely.
Challenge 4. Translate your (and other people’s) complaints and criticisms into specific requests, and explain your requests.
Challenge 5. Ask questions more “openendedly” and more creatively.
Challenge 6. Express more appreciation.
Challenge 7. Make better communication an important part of your everyday life.

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Messages Video 1-2 contains a series of eight drama sequences following the story of two friends, Emily and Paul, as they attempt to make a short prize-winning film about life in the UK. The sequences are lively and entertaining and include a variety of locations: from Florida in the USA to the London Eye and the popular UK seaside resort of Brighton.

The language covered corresponds to levels 1 and 2 of the Messages course, but teachers of lower secondary students in general will find the videos fun and stimulating to use. The video comes with a booklet containing activity worksheets for each programme with explanatory teacher's notes. Full video scripts are also provided.

Playing time: approximately 46 minutes.

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Kibworth is modern Britain in miniature: located in the very heart of England and split now by the A6, it’s the kind of place you could drive through without giving it a second thought. But, like most places in England, scrape just beneath the surface and you discover an incredibly rich historical tapestry.

The first episode delves into the roots of the Kibworth community, its ancestors and landscape, exploring the deep past that shaped the village and its people. With the help of the local people and using archaeology, landscape language and
DNA, Michael begins to uncover the lost history of the first thousand years of the village.

More than 250 villagers unite in digging up their own back gardens to unearth artefacts and look into the history that’s all around them. A staggering 55 test pits were dug over one weekend, the largest number ever in a single place, and a
wealth of evidence discovered: pottery from the Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods all the way through to the Middle Ages; debris of Georgian coaching inns; frame knitters’ workshops; and railway navvies’ camps.

In Michael Wood’s Story Of England the stage is set. From the Romans to the Vikings, from the Black Death to the civil war, this series lays bare a history peopled by fascinating real-life characters, including Tudor teachers, highwaymen, Suffragettes and First World War soldiers.

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The Attitude DVD supports the Attitude course by offering a fresh, visual complement to the contents of the Student's Book. It is made up of 12 motivating videos that provide learners real-life models of how to achieve their language tasks.Each clip is around 5 mins long, no subtitles, full scripts can be found in DVD Activity Book.

American English Course, ensuring students have a positive attitude to learning English, the six level course for adults and young adults,delivers high-interest topics and engaging activities, taking
students from beginner to advanced level
KEY FEATURES:
- Up-to-date interesting topics that motivate learners to use English communicatively
- Integrated-skills practice
- Helps students develop solid learning foundations through a program of language exposure, analysis and practice
- A task-focused lesson in each unit that recycles the language learned so far.
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Jack is american,and he is from New York,the big apple, alice is australian, anne is english ,and she is from Oxford, 100% english.
And in every dvd, there is a TW show , So you can learn indian english ,and so on. Have fun!
Each publication (or module) presents three main features:
- The DVD, compatible with either a television or a computer. The DVD is the core of the course,
- An audio CD containing the transcriptfions from the video episodes on the DVD along with some new interesting materials for in-depth study and revision.
- A paperback course book with the transcriptions of the episodes from the DVD and their translation, exercises and a section dedicating special attention to new vocabulary.

Each publication (or module) presents three main features:
- The DVD, compatible with either a television or a computer. The DVD is the core of the course,
- An audio CD containing the transcriptions from the video episodes on the DVD along with some new interesting materials for in-depth study and revision.
- A paperback course book with the transcriptions of the episodes from the DVD and their translation, exercises and a section dedicating special attention to new vocabulary.

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The first hand experience of multimedia support along with the theoretical material expedites your learning experience of English.
This dictionary is specially assembled for English Guru students’ benefit. Apart from its conventional use, this clubbed together with Practice book will help you enrich your vocabulary.
You also get this comprehensive exercise book to polish your recently acquired language skills.
To hone on your personality traits refer to this well crafted section of your English learning course containing various tips, guidelines and solutions from a versatile collection of subjects.
A colourfull big size TENSE CHART with this english guru package to learn basic rules of english language.

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