UP:ELA21.12.10

Vocabulary

  • Active listening
  • Purpose
  • Credibility
  • Effectiveness
  • Tone
  • Organization
  • Content
  • Verbal cues
  • Non-verbal cues
  • Fallacious reasoning
  • Distorted evidence

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Active listening skills.
  • Criteria to assess the purpose, credibility, and effectiveness of a speaker.
  • Strategies to evaluate the tone, organization, and content of spoken language.
  • Methods to identify verbal and nonverbal cues of a speaker.
  • Fallacious reasoning is illogical and invalid, and distorted evidence is evidence that is not presented accurately.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Listen actively to a speaker to determine the purpose, credibility, and effectiveness of the presentation.
  • Listen actively to a speaker to evaluate the tone, organization, and content of spoken language.
  • Evaluate a speaker's verbal and non-verbal cues.
  • Identify fallacious reasoning or distorted evidence.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Spoken language can be analyzed similarly to the way one analyzes a text and an author.
  • Spoken language should be closely analyzed for any instances of illogical reasoning or inaccurate evidence.
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