Stage 1 guidelines for listening: Interactional skills

Here are some interactional skills objectives for Stage 1 for listening:

• To recognize the most common adjacency pairs, such as question/answer or question/answer/response, that make up transactions
• To recognize the ritualized expressions that frame common conversation situations, such as greetings at the beginning and leave-takings at the end of a conversation
• To recognize the gestures, facial expressions, and words that accompany polite greetings and leave-taking expressions
• To recognize how people typically act when they sell you something or when they buy something
• To identify how a driver and passengers typically interact on public transportation
• To recognize what people do when they visit others or when they invite other people into their home

Here are some interactional skills strategies for Stage 1 guidelines for listening:

• Analysis

  Analyze the scripts for the most common communication situations you encounter.

• Practice

  Include interactive techniques in your practice activities.

• Selective attention

  Be observant of gestures and facial expressions that accompany what people say in performing common communication functions.

Here is an interactional skills technique for Stage 1 guidelines for listening:

• The Participant Observation technique

Here is a interactional skills activity for Stage 1 guidelines for listening:

Be aware of people who look shocked or embarrassed by something you do or say. Ask a language associate (LA) or a friend about it later. Unfortunately, many taboos are learned by breaking them.

• Generic module: Stage 1 guidelines for listening: Interactional sk...
• In overview module: Stage 1: Listening modules
• In modular book: Guidelines for a Language and Culture Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In document collection: Other Resources
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

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