Listen and learn, the saying goes. But are students and teachers these days fully listening to each other? What, exactly, is good listening, and why does it matter when it comes to learning? Is "close ...

A few years ago, as a teacher at a New York City middle school, in Brooklyn, I was administering the listening portion of a standardized test. “Listen,” I read aloud from the teacher’s manual. I ...

Listen and learn, the saying goes. But are students and teachers these days fully listening to each other? What, exactly, is good listening, and why does it matter when it comes to learning? Is "close ...

All language instructors teach their students the four communicative language skills: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Recently, greater emphasis on the discrete skill of listening ...

Speaking and listening account for the overwhelming majority of how we receive information in our daily communications. Yet, average listeners may understand and recall as little as 10 percent of what ...

A lot of teachers give students participation points for speaking up during class discussions. The more students contribute, the more points they get. I’ve heard teachers say this motivates students, ...