Teaching and Assessment of Macro Skills

Listening is considered fundamental to speaking in a language classroom.

According to Rubin (1995), listening involves passively receiving auditory and visual clues.

Active listening involves decoding, interpreting, and evaluating messages.

Mcburney and Wrage propose that good listening is involuntary.

Asking open-ended questions is a non-verbal active listening skill.

Active listeners do not need to concentrate much on the speaker's words.

Listening comprehension is not connected to cognitive learning.

Recognition is one of the listening comprehension skills that involve understanding the intention and purpose of the message.

Active listening involves solely verbal techniques.

Recognition involves identifying components like sounds and words in a message.