Noteworthy, 2/E offers both stimulating topics for study and great versatility. It is a high intermediate to advanced level ESL/EFL listening and notetaking program with three major goals: to improve listening comprehension and develop academic notetaking skills through intensive practice, to provide foreign students with a deeper, clearer understanding of life and culture in the United States, and to increase productive skills through tasks in which students use aural input for reproduction and transfer activities in speaking and writing.