Teaching and Assessment of Macro Skills

Listening is considered fundamental to speaking in a language classroom.

• True

• False

According to Rubin (1995), listening involves passively receiving auditory and visual clues.

• True

• False

Active listening involves decoding, interpreting, and evaluating messages.

• True

• False

Mcburney and Wrage propose that good listening is involuntary.

• True

• False

Asking open-ended questions is a non-verbal active listening skill.

• True

• False

Active listeners do not need to concentrate much on the speaker's words.

• True

• False

Listening comprehension is not connected to cognitive learning.

• True

• False

Recognition is one of the listening comprehension skills that involve understanding the intention and purpose of the message.

• True

• False

Active listening involves solely verbal techniques.

• True

• False

Recognition involves identifying components like sounds and words in a message.

• True

• False