Responding through Listening: Promoting Listening Skills through Lightning Talks and 2x2x2 Storytelling

Current scholarship in writing pedagogy and peer review focuses on how and what to write and say. What is often left unaddressed in these discussions are how we listen and how we teach our students to listen, making listening an often overlooked and understudied piece of the peer review and writing response process. Yet, the quality of the feedback we receive and offer is directly tied to how well we listen to what is said and written. To this fill this gap, this teaching article offers two activities, Lighting Talks and 2x2x2 Storytelling, that promote students’ listening skills so that writing instructors might close the response feedback loop by teaching students how to listen and in turn, teach students how to engage more fully in peer review.