Stc listening

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Lecture

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LISTENING SKILLSLISTENING SKILLS

Nagendra KumarDept. of Humanities & Social Sciences

IIT Roorkee


Antony’s speech in Caesar• Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears; I

come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest-- For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men-- Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.


On listeningOn listening

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway


Listening SkillsListening Skills

60-75 percent of time spent in listening.

Hearing is a physiological activity while

listening is a mental one.

Hearing requires no conscious effort.


Why should one listenWhy should one listen

To gain information

To receive instruction

To hear complaint

To enjoy entertainment

To show respect


What is Listening?

• An important part of communication

process

• A means of gathering information

• All listening is not hearing


Listening as process

Hearing

Filtering

Interpreting

Responding

Remembering


Perceptive Listening• Perceptive listening is a conscious ,

cognitive effort involving primarily the sense of hearing reinforced by other senses and leading to understanding….It is an attitude well expressed as a listening spirit.

Ernest D Nathan


Factors of good listening

¤ Adequate hearing

¤ Recognition of problems that affect listening

¤ Knowledge of specific kind of listening

¤ Relationship between listening and vocabulary

¤ Judging what is heard

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Attributes

• Readiness

• Ability to discriminate among sounds and ideas

• Supplying meaning to symbols

• Relating meaning to sounds

• Evaluating medium and manner of speaker

• Willingness to disregard prejudice

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Factors affecting listening

Prejudging

Ambiguity

Illusion

Rigidity

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Some other factors that impede listening

• Status

• Complex

• Closed mind

• Poor retention

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Contd.

• Abstracting

• Slant

• Premature evaluation

• Hurried conclusions

• Cognitive dissonance

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Contd.

Perhaps listening cannot be taught but many of us are convinced that it can be learned.

Carl Weaver

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Listening with prejudice• If we hear something that opposes our most deeply-

rooted prejudices, notions, conviction, mores or

complexes, our brains may become over-stimulated and

not in a direction that leads to good listening. We

mentally plan a rebuttal to what we hear, formulate a

question designed to embarrass the talker, or perhaps

simply turn to thoughts that support our own feelings on

the subject at hand. Idel

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Types of listening

Cautious listening: general concepts and

all details

Skimming: general concepts

Scanning: details of specific interest

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Factors affecting listening

Physical barrier

Psychological barrier

Language barriers

Nonverbal distractions

Grandstanding

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Ways to improve listening

Stop talking

Control your surroundings

Be open minded

Judge ideas not appearances

Hold your fire

Provide feedback

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How to comprehend listening

• Intelligence

• Reading comprehension

• Recognition of correct English

• Listeners vocabulary

• Ability to make inferences

• Ability to structuralize

• Emotional adjustments

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Contd.

• Curiosity

• Physical fatigue

• Admiration for the speaker

• Sex of the listener

• Acoustics

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Remember

Hearing is sensation, listening is interpretation.

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Thank You

for

listening

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