David Castillo edrg3344

Definition of Listening (part 1)
Listening is "the most used and perhaps the most important of the language (and learning) arts", yet a complex, interactive process by which spoken language is converted to meaning. There are four (4) types of listening: First is Discriminative listening, as an adult we pick and choose information based only on our interest. Students can be very discriminative with chapter texts by only concentrating on the bold face print. Second is Aesthetic listening, people listen to a speaker or reader when listen for enjoyment. Occasionally, I'll tune in to a TV channel where an author is reading his/her book aloud and is also interesting to see how many people attend these functions. Third is Efferent Listening, people listen to understand a message and a good example of this is probably that of taking notes. People can take notes to only identify the main points and based with only the their notes they then can organize an outline of information in order to remember it. Fourth is Critical listening, people listen critically to evaluate a message or instructional information. This process is often used for debating.

What was the most challenging part of the debate? Why? What aspects of listening did you use? (part 2)
First of all we were too many to have an effective debate. Therefore, I would have to say the most challenging part of the debate was trying to focus on what they were trying to tell our team. It was difficult to listen carefully and write down some of their major points so that our team could debate. I feel that I/team used all four types of the listening aspects and probably the aesthetic was my favorite since both teams enjoyed the debate.

Choice Words chpt. 2 "teacher talk" (part 3)
I'm going to go with "What kind of text is this?" This opens a conversation about classifying things, including articulating the logic of the classification. The reason I like this one is because it reminds me of when my son began coloring, he would always show me his coloring or drawing and as a parent you would always say "it is beautiful", however; I would ask him "what do you think?" and this would turn into a lengthy conversation on analyzing the colors the shapes outside the lines and etc... So, as parents and teachers don't just respond with good job throw the question back to your child or student.