Listening Skills
resources and activities for teaching effective listening
by Kevin Ryan & Adrian Pauley
Listening Skills provides valuable information, guidelines and practical activities to help teach effective listening skills to students from Years 6 to 10.
It includes
o information
o strategies
o ideas
o activities
for teaching listening skills to students from Year 6 to Year 11
Included with the book is a 36 track audio CD with material to use as examples of some of the concepts in the book and which can be used as the basis of some of the exercises and activities in the book.
Listening Skills is accompanied by Speaking Out
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Listening Skills Contents
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About this book 1 Learning listening Listening is learnable The listening paradox Relearning listening Dispelling the assumptions Assessing listening skills Teaching listening Listening quiz 2 What listening is Defining listening Listening choices The listening process The message Message variables Message components Verbal component Vocal component Visual component Interpret in context 3 Levels of listening The different levels Switching levels 4 Listening filters Filtering the message Existing knowledge and past experience Beliefs and values Self-interest Staying open minded
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5 Listening barriers Listening barriers Sender’s barriers Environmental barriers Listener’s barriers 6 Listening essentials Empathy Suspended judgment Awareness 7 A listening focus Concentration Evaluation Remembering Note-taking 8 Active listening skills Encouragers Summarising content Paraphrasing Reflecting feelings Questioning Appendices 1 10 tips for effective listening 2 A good listener/a bad listener
Guidelines and suggested answers for exercises CD contents |