TYPES of Speaking and listening  

Types of Speaking

• Exploratory talk - We talk to help us understand and develop ideas.

  • Explore ideas collaboratively.

  • Clarify or make sense of ideas through questioning, hypothesising, speculating, making logical deductions and responding to others' ideas.

  • Dialogic talk enables speakers and listeners to explore and build on their own and others’ ideas to develop coherent thinking. The aim is to achieve a common understanding through structured cumulative questioning and discussion. Dialogic teaching occurs when students are encouraged to engage in meaningful, sustained passages of dialogic exchange, where teachers have a critical role in promoting and guiding talk to learn.2   A primary aim of dialogic teaching is to develop students’ control over substantial curriculum content. It is a shift from the traditional question-answer classroom culture.

  • Accountable talk is when students are explicitly taught strategies for effective interaction where they take responsibility for the successful outcome of group talk. Three aspects of accountable talk:

    • • • 1. Accountability to the learning community

          2. Accountability to accurate knowledge

          3. Accountability to rigorous thinking.

• Presentational talk -We talk to share ideas and information and to entertain others. 

  • Developed after exploratory talk has taken place

  • Presenting ideas to an audience

• Conversational talk - We talk to build relationships. 

  • Meet and greet 

  • Discussions

  • Sharing ideas

  • Explaining a process

  • Narrating a story

  • Following instructions

  • Retelling

Types of Listening

Informational listening - We listen to obtain information, understand ideas, follow instructions or directions. 

Critical or evaluative listening - We listen to evaluate ideas and form opinions.

Appreciative listening - We listen for enjoyment. 

Responsive/empathic listening- We listen to build relationships or support others, without passing judgement.