Knowing how to listen

Knowing how to listen in the classroom means, on one hand, to pay attention to the teacher as the group organizer, teaching guide, and cultural and educational reference. On the other hand, it means to listen to the students as the receivers and main actors of a dynamic and practical learning, taking in account the diversity of origins, knowledge, ethnic groups, cultures and curiosities. Only by listening one can consolidate the collective building of knowledge and the personal enrichment.

In addition to the previous contents we should tackle particularly:

   -Knowing how to listen with respect the linguistic forms in all its varieties.

   -To recognize and know how to listen the diversity of languages in the media (radio and TV).

   -To recognize when listening the relation between the linguistic form with the Spanish from America,      and also other linguistic forms rooted in our autonomous communities (language of the gypsy ethnic)

    -To continue with the knowledge of the oral tradition in its different levels of expression (flamenco,        folklore...) started in the previous stage.

Suggestions about the methodological line and using of resources.

For an appropriate achievement of the skills related to listening, we should first work with keeping a significant level of attention to the messages sent out by other interlocutors, and seek to ensure the respect to the specific characteristics of the speaker. At the same time, or afterwards, one will work the receptive attention and memorizing of basic texts. Finally, or at the same time, one needs to work with the basic and middle comprehension of messages with an increasing level of complexity according to situations or textual methods (to tell, to describe, to give an opinion...).