Stage 3 guidelines for listening: Interactional skills

Here is an interactional skills objective for Stage 3 for listening:

To be able to interpret what you hear according to the rules of the society, and know whether or not someone is being insulting, rude, or polite

Here are some interactional skills strategies for Stage 3 guidelines for listening:

• Analysis

  Listen to exchanges between people and base your interpretation on what you know. Then talk to a language associate (LA) about it for further insight, and to clear up any misinterpretations you made.

• Selective attention

  Be observant of verbal and nonverbal cues that are given for specific types of interactions.

• Practice

  Make an effort to incorporate into your interactions with people the rules you have learned for good dialogue, and so forth through your observation and discussion with a LA and other helpful sources.

Here are some interactional skills techniques for Stage 3 guidelines for listening:

• The Dialogue Variations technique
• The Script Analysis technique
• The Participant Observation technique
• The Role-Play technique

• Work on more complicated or advanced scripts

  • List the situations here for which you feel you are still unsure of how to act and what to say, and role-play with a LA

Here are some interactional skills activities for Stage 3 guidelines for listening:

• The Join in the Work activity
• The Social Visiting activity

• Listen to and watch media such as radio, TV, and films if available

  • Find contexts in which you can listen to speeches, lectures, and conversations
  • Get as much exposure as possible to the language used in a variety of communication situations

• Generic module: Stage 3 guidelines for listening: Interactional sk...
• In overview module: Stage 3: 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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