Listening & Notetaking Skills 1 (with Audio script)

About Patricia A. DunkelPatricia DunkelPhyllis L. LimPhyllis Lim

Phyllis Lim Ph.D. taught intensive ESL for over 20 years at the Center for English as a Second Language at the University of Arizona directed the MATEFL Program at Bilkent University (Turkey) as a Fulbright Senior Scholar for two years and directed the English Language Center at the University of Sharjah UAE for five years. She also received Fulbright teaching scholarships to Slovenia and Italy as well as an English Language Fellowship to Libya. Her first introduction to living and working overseas was a semester teaching EFL at the Beijing Institute of Foreign Languages in 1983 on an exchange program with the University of Arizona. She is very appreciative for each and every subsequent opportunity that working in his field has given her both on a professional and personal level. Patricia A. Dunkel is Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics at Georgia State University. Her research includes a focus on the utility and techniques of note-taking on second/foreign language (L2) listening comprehension. She has published a number of research articles and instructional books on the topic. She also has done cutting edge work in computer-adaptive testing of L2 listening proficiency. She has given numerous research and teacher-training presentations on the topics in Africa Asia Europe and North America. Her teaching experience includes positions at The Pennsylvania State University the University of Arizona Georgetown University and Harvard University where she taught numerous graduate and undergraduate students as well as pre-university students of English as a second/foreign language.