This workshop explores a three-semester, academic listening course that begins with listening strategy development, moves on to personalized development of said strategies, and culminates in autonomous academic listening tasks. Listening is a skill that is more often tested than taught. However, it remains the backbone of other language skills and therefore demands metalinguistic attention. The author will share a selection of the course materials, including exercises for pre-listening, independent listening, and post-listening tasks. All materials have been produced in-house, in accordance with the goals and objectives of an integrated EAP program. The author will discuss relationships between the courses and contemporary research, focusing on the use of transcripts, soundbites, dicto-comp, cloze summaries, internet-based authentic texts, notetaking, vocabulary acquisition, and various other listening strategies; highlighting what worked, what did not.
