What Do You Believe About Listening?
Instructions:
State whether you believe the following are true or false:
1. Any person who is able to hear knows how to listen.
2. Listening is an involuntary, automatic response.
3. Listening is a passive activity.
4. Speakers can easily talk faster than receivers can listen.
5. Speakers can force receivers to listen.
6. Listeners have very little effect on speakers.
7. Listening requires the listener to agree with the speaker.
8. Understanding requires agreement.
9. Intelligence determines listening ability.
10. Listening abilities develop naturally with maturity.
11. The most used skill in school is reading.
12. Listening abilities cannot be taught.
13. When you learn to read, you learn simultaneously to listen.
14. Daily listening in school eliminates the need for instruction.
15. Listening does not affect learning.
16. Teachers do not need to listen.
17. Listening to your parent or teacher read a story or poem teaches you how to listen.
18. Listening has little impact on academic performance.
19. "Listen carefully," is the only listening instruction necessary.
20. Poor listening is a result of being human.
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