List and describe five instructional techniques you can use to improve the listening skills of students who have difficulty listening effectively and/or have developed poor listening habits
What will be an ideal response?
Responses may include the following suggestions:
• Make sure students are seated where they can listen, attend, and concentrate.
• Use verbal and nonverbal cues at the beginning of and throughout a lesson to get attention.
• Alert your students before they listen to a class presentation that there will be at least one factual error in the presentation.
• Prior to a lecture or presentation, list the five most important points of the talk on the board, an overhead projector, Power Point, or a handout. Then ask your students to listen for those five points and arrange them in the correct sequence before the conclusion of the presentation.
• Periodically, stop your presentation and ask students to construct summary statements.
• During video presentations, stop the video at any time to ask questions about the content or ask for predictions of what will happen next.
• Ask your students to listen to television or radio advertisements and explain how the advertisers are trying to influence listeners to buy their products.
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