1. ACADEMIC
INTERACTIONS 130A
FALL 2014
NIKKI MATTSON, IECP

2. GROUPS FOR TODAY
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5
Hadel Mansour Ali Mohammed Jehad
Nauf Abdulrahee
m
Hailey Rita Ryan
Rika Soo Jin Sukyeong Abdulmalik Sung Jun
Zhicheng Brenda Johar Francisco Hassan

3. ANNOUNCEMENT
• 9/8 practice test 1 moved to 9/9
9/9 small group speaking task moved to 9/10 by
12:00 am

4. AGENDA
• Conversation starters (vocabulary practice)
• Before listening vocabulary activity
• Thinking about how to do research at a library
• Listening: researching an extreme sport at a library
• After-listening discussion

5. CONVERSATION STARTERS
• Form groups of 3-4 people
• Choose several interesting conversation starters,
and have an academic conversation.
• (We will talk more about what academic
conversation is and how we can do it as the
semester continues.)
• Document

6. VOCABULARY
• Pg. 12, “before you listen” (whole class)
• Pg. 13 – predicting (whole class)

7. PREDICTING/BRAINSTORMING
• How do you do research for an academic
assignment?
• Where do you look?
• How do you evaluate sources?
• Make a list of 5 tips that your group has for
conducting academic research (steps, things that
work, things to avoid, etc.)

8. LISTENING
• Listen and try to complete the chart on pg. 13

9. REFLECTION QUESTIONS
Purpose Organization Basic
Comprehension
Reactions
1. Who is the speaker and
who is the intended
audience?
1. How did the
speaker organize his
information?
1. What does the
speaker think about
using Wikipedia for
academic research?
Why does he think
that?
1. Did you learn
anything from the
listening about
academic research?
2. What do you think the
speaker’s goals were?
2. Which transitions
did he use?
2. What steps does
the speaker suggest
that the students
follow?
2. What questions do
you still have about
conducting
academic research?
3. Is the speaker sharing
mostly facts or opinions?
Can you find two examples
of each?
3. What is a thesis
statement? How
does the speaker
distinguish between
strong and weak
thesis statements?
3. Do you know how
to access PSU’s
electronic catalog?
4. Why does the speaker
ask questions during his
talk?

10. PSU LIBRARY WEBSITE
• Website
• Another tool is at the companion website (under
my searchlab)
• Search Tool

11. NEW EXPRESSIONS?
• Read through the audio script on pg. 161. What are
3 new (to you) expressions/ words/phrases that the
speaker used?
• Share them with your group and try to use them in a
sentence or two.

12. ANNOUNCEMENT
• 9/8 practice test 1 moved to 9/9
9/9 small group speaking task moved to 9/10 by
12:00 am

13. HW
•Practice Test (leap chapter 1) on Tuesday – review
the whole chapter for preparation. (not graded)