Topic 6 Professional Literacy - Speaking & Listening

Professional Speaking Occasions

Required to speak at various events

Large Staff Meetings

Small Meetings

Community Events

Media

Radio/TV

Parent-Teacher Interviews

Input Literacy

Reading

Language through the eyes

Listening

Language through the ears

Dialogic Reading

Adding more info to students

P - Prompt

E - Evaluate

E - Extend

R - Report

Active Listening

Pay attention

Eye contact

Own thoughts on hold

Show that you are listening

Provide Feedback

Paraphrase / repeat back

Don't interrupt

Listening

Requires listener to be engaged & active

Continues to develop over time

Meaning from sound

Extraction

Patterns

Filters

2 Ways

One way process

listening to a movie

Interactive Communication

Conscious listening creates understanding

Purpose

Instrucations

Details / Key ideas

Overall understanding

Gain feedback

Entertainment

Impacts on

Reading

Writing

Speaking

Reasoning

More than hearing

Hearing

Processing

Sound of speech & words

Understanding intention & context

Speaking

Clear

Accurate

Persuasive

Same text spoken helps listener judge our sincerty

Unscripted speech

Common mistakes

Would of

Should of

Could of

Somethink

Anythink

Youse

Lie-berry / Fil-im

Need to be

Models of language development

Teacher talk not always formal but always professional

Appropriate language

Appropriate use of specific vocabulary

Avoid/Omit

Sarcasm

Irony

Offensive language

"Not on"

"Gunna"

"Reckon"

"Eh?"

Sentences ending in ok?

Sentences that rise in pitch at the end