Overview/AbstractIn ordinary life we are constantly imbued by listening and we seem to interact in different contextual dimensions of culture and society (Adelmann 2002, Linell 1998, both verbally and nonverbally. "Life by its very nature is dialogic. To live means to participate in dialogue", according to the Russian scholar Mikhail M. Bakhtin (1984:293).So, in everyday life we get used to many kinds of situations where we hear conversations that we are actually not supposed to hear. For example, while we are waiting for the bus or subway we may listen to people next to us that appear to being having an argument.Usually we do not notice all these routine situations. But sometimes we do notice some interaction and listen with some attention. We have more of an absentminded attention and rarely listen attentively. But what if we did? The activity in listening presented here takes advantage of our daily and personal listening experiences of eavesdropping and use it for the educational purpose of listening development. Learning OutcomesAfter completing this activity students will Engage in participant observation Direct their attention to the listening opportunities around them Listen with intention Increase listening ability Detailed Procedure 1. Have students read sections of The Art of Listening (Adelmann 2009), such as different listening skills for different purposes (Wolvin & Coakley, 1996[1982). 2. Give a lecture introducing listening reception, providing examples on observation as a social research method, and the ethical principles involved in such research. 3. Give students the listening homework, using the following instruction that originally comes from an idea by Margot Ely (1991):
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