The concept of active listening as a facilitator in developing speaking skills

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The concept of active listening as a facilitator in developing speaking skills

Original language description

Interpersonal communication skills have been in demand by employers throughout all academic and industrial fields. Successful managers in engineering are expected to master the rules of effective communication in more than one language. While teaching a B1 course of academic English focusing on listening and speaking, I have been dealing with rather heterogeneous groups of students. As the course is voluntary, some students have a high command of English, thus dominating class discussions, while others choose the course because they failed one of the compulsory courses, which means they very often stay silent. To amend this situation, I decided to introduce to concept of active listening into this course by means of Theory-Guided Communicative Instruction. During in‑class discussions, students were given direct input on active listening with the prospect of avoiding two simultaneous monologues with no responses when sharing an experiential independent talk, learning to ask questions, particularly about understanding correctly both the information given and the language used, building confidence in less skillful students by learning to rephrase other students’ ideas, and reducing the talking time of more skillful students by learning to express ideas concisely. The effectiveness of this intervention was assessed by comparing student before-the-course and after-the-course questionnaires, teacher’s in‑class observations, and final examination evaluation. Active listening strategies proved to be a way of redeeming the above‑mentioned challenges even though the disruptions of technology are to remain a phenomenon to cope with and the practice of paraphrasing and commenting needs more targeted training

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60201 - General language studies

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

CASALC Review

ISSN

1804-9435

e-ISSN

2694-9288

Volume of the periodical

2

Issue of the periodical within the volume

15

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

115-119

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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