{"id":447,"date":"2026-04-09T05:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/?p=447"},"modified":"2026-05-26T00:02:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:02:33","slug":"back-channeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/2026\/04\/09\/back-channeling\/","title":{"rendered":"Back Channeling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is it? In a conversation, it&#8217;s normal to show that you&#8217;re listening by using small sounds and words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:#ffe5d1\" class=\"has-inline-color\">For example: when eye contact is made; when you hear a main point or interesting information<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In English, we use words like&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Yeah<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Right<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Okay<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sure<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Uh-huh<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That&#8217;s right!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yes!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What sounds and words do you use when you have conversations in your mother tongue?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Practice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Japanese, talk about the following question for 3 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Example: <\/strong>Do you like eggs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steps<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>On a piece of paper, make a small mark every time you hear another student use back channeling.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Now, talk about the same question in English for 4 minutes, using words like the examples above to back channel.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On the same piece of paper, make another small mark when you hear another student use back channeling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did you have the same number of marks between the two conversations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it? In a conversation, it&#8217;s normal to show that you&#8217;re listening by using small sounds and words. For example: when eye contact is made; when you hear a main point or interesting information In English, we use words like&#8230; What sounds and words do you use when you have conversations in your mother &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/2026\/04\/09\/back-channeling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back Channeling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication-classes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unistudy.net\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}