Listening

Purpose: Listening is the most important Language Art because its the one we use the
most. It is the means to receive, process, analyze, apply, and transform information.

Process:

1) Receive

2) Select/Attend

3) Assign

Meaning

Critical
-decide whether the information is reliable.

Efferent
-understand the message - retain practical information organizing recognizing big ideas questioning summarize

Aesthetic
- enjoyment - engage/ connect with text - emotional response predicting visualizing connecting summarize

Discriminative General
- distinguish between sounds and nonverbal communication Most listening involves more than one type.

Definition

Strategies

determining authors viewpoint identifying persuasive techniques evaluating drawing conclusions

blending segmenting savoring word play noticing verbal and nonverbal cues

Assessment

- rhetoric -propaganda study

- determine theme - organize information.

- Respond to the text

- Spelling tests - Word play

-mostly formative -paired w/ other L.A.

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