Listening Skills - Part 3

​Listening Skills

• Inferencing

• Drawing conclusions

​Inferencing

• ​Finding answers from clues and from prior knowledge rather than directly

• 'Listen between the lines'

• ​Tips:

  • Use your prior knowledge of the speaker and topic

  • ​Use contextual clues such as the word choice, the way they are spoken, and nonverbal factors to identify the implicit message

  • ​Confirm, change, or disregard inferences as you get more information

Multiple Choice

Listen to the person talk about his or her emotion. Select the food that the person might eat based on what you hear. Be prepared to explain the inferences you made.

Multiple Choice

Listen to the person talk about his or her emotion. Select the food that the person might eat based on what you hear. Be prepared to explain the inferences you made.

Multiple Choice

Listen to the person talk about his or her emotion. Select the food that the person might eat based on what you hear. Be prepared to explain the inferences you made.

Multiple Choice

Listen to the person talk about his or her emotion. Select the food that the person might eat based on what you hear. Be prepared to explain the inferences you made.

Drawing Conclusions

• Making a judgement after careful consideration of facts and opinions presented

• Requires logical reasoning and critical thinking skills

• ​Tips:

  • ​Consider what you already know from your own experience

  • ​Gather and examine all the information given in the text

  • Make judgement based on logical reasoning after examining the evidence

  • ​From direct and indirect evidence

Multiple Choice

1. Based on the excerpt, choose the conclusion that you can draw.

• One of the students has another class to attend soon.

• The students are all connected on Facebook.

Multiple Choice

2. Based on the excerpt, choose the conclusion that you can draw.

• She has personal experience using ground-penetrating radar (GPR).

• She thinks older technologies are more useful than newer ones.

Multiple Choice

3. Based on the excerpt, choose the conclusion that you can draw.

• She has read the same article about lidar as the man.

• She had heard about lidar before the man mentioned it.

Multiple Select

4. Based on the excerpt, choose the conclusion that you can draw.

• The tiny robots were not originally developed for use by archaeologists.

• Both of the male students think robots are a good technology to look into.

Open Ended

Q&A / Reflection / Issue

Please ask at least ONE question.

OR Tell us your thoughts on what you have learned.

OR State ONE issue/difficulty that you have faced during this lecture.

Poll

How do you feel about today's lecture?