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Download or read book Active Listening: Introducing Skills for Understanding Student's book written by Marc Helgesen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-07-28 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book helps students listen for gist and specific information, to make inferences and to progress to content-based activities. Introducing Skills for Understanding is the high-beginning level of the Active Listening series. By activating students' knowledge of a topic before they listen, the text gives them a frame of reference to make intelligent predictions about what they will hear. Students learn to listen through a careful balance of activities, including listening for gist, listening for specific information, and making inferences.