LISTENING

What is listening?
EU EN101 M. Ochinang

Wk 2.1

Which activity involves the most

amount of listening?

Students spend 20% in school

50% Are most of your activities focused
around listening, especially in the
classroom?

Listening and Hearing

Hearing is physical.
Listening is following and
understanding the sound---it is
hearing with a purpose.

AAA
Good listening is built on three basic
skills:

ATTITUDE
ATTENTION
ADJUSTMENT

Listening is
Listening is the absorption of the meanings of
words and sentences by the brain.
Listening leads to the understanding of facts
and ideas.
But listening takes attention, or sticking to the
task at hand in spite of distractions.

Cont
Listening is a very important skill, especially
for tutors.
Giving a student your full attention is sometimes
difficult because you start to run out of time, or
you find yourself thinking about your next
question; however, the time you spend actively
listening to your student will result in a quality
tutoring session.

Poor Listening Habits and Good

Listening Habits
Poor Listening
Habits

Poor Listeners...

Good Listeners...

realize that a lecture is

criticize the speaker's
not a popularity
voice, clothes, or looks.
Criticizing a
contest. Good listeners
Therefore, they decide
speaker
look for the ideas
that the speaker won`t
being presented, not
say anything important.
for things to criticize.
listen with the mind,
become so involved in
not the emotions. Good
disagreeing with
listeners jot down
Finding fault with
something the speaker
something they
the speaker
states that they stop
disagree with to ask
listening to the remainder
the speaker later, then
of the lecture

Poor Listening Habits and Good

Listening Habits
use little distractions -Allowing
someone coughing, a pencil
filter out distractions and
yourself to
dropping, the door opening and concentrate on what the
be
closing -- as an excuse to stop
speaker is saying.
distracted
listening.
understand that speakers
talk about what they think
look at the speaker but don't
is most important. Good
Faking
listen. They expect to get the
listeners know that a good
attention
material from the textbook
lecture may not contain
later.
the same information as
the textbook.
Forcing
outline the lecture in detail.
adjust their style of noteevery
The listener is so concerned
taking to the speaker's
lecture into
with organization that he
topic and method of

Poor Listening Habits and Good

Listening Habits
want to see how the facts
and examples support the
only want the facts. They
speaker's ideas and
Listening only consider everything else to
arguments. Good listeners
for facts
be only the speaker's
know that facts are
opinion.
important, because they
support ideas.
think it is too difficult to want to learn something new
follow the speaker's
and try to understand the
Listening to
complicated ideas and
speaker's point. A good
only the easy
logic.A poor listener wants
listener is not afraid of
material
entertainment, not
difficult, technical, or
education.
complicated ideas.
listen closely for information

Poor Listening Habits and Good

Listening Habits
get upset at words which
hear these same words.
Overreacting to trigger certain emotions -When they do, they
"push button" words such as communist,
listen very carefully. A
emotional
income tax, Hitler or
good listener tries to
words
abortion. Emotion begins and understand the speaker's
listening ends.
point of view.
use any extra time or
pauses in the lecture to
move along lazily with the
reflect on the speaker's
speaker even though thinking
Wasting
message. They think
is faster than speaking. A
thought speed
about what the speaker
poor listener daydreams and
is saying, summarize the
falls behind.
main points, and think

TYPES OF LISTENING
1. Discriminative listening
Discriminative listening is the
most basic type of listening,
whereby the difference between
difference sounds is identified.

Cont..
We learn to discriminate between
sounds within our own language early,
and later are unable to discriminate
between the phonemes of other
languages.

Cont..

Listening is a visual as well as

auditory act, as we
communicate much
throughbody language.

2. Comprehension listening
To comprehend the meaning requires first
having a lexicon of words at our fingertips
and also all rules of grammar and syntax by
which we can understand what others are
saying.
The same is true, of course, for the visual
components of communication, and an
understanding of body language helps us
understand what the other person is really
meaning.

Cont
In communication, some words are more
important and some less so, and comprehension
often benefits from extraction of key facts and
items from a long spiel.
Comprehension listening is also knownas
1. content listening,
2. informative listeningand
3. full listening.

3. Critical listening
Critical listening is listening in order to
evaluate and judge, forming opinion
about what is being said. Judgment
includes assessing strengths and
weaknesses, agreement and approval.

4. Biased listening
Biased listening happens when the
person hears only what they want to
hear, typically misinterpreting what the
other person says based on
thestereotypesand other biases that
they have.
Such biased listening is often very
evaluative in nature.

5. Evaluative listening
In evaluative listening, orcritical
listening, we make judgments about
what the other person is saying. We
seek to assess the truth of what is
being said. We also judge what they say
against ourvalues, assessing them as
good or bad, worthy or unworthy.

Cont..
Within this, we also discriminate
between subtleties of language and
comprehend the inner meaning of what
is said.
Typically also we weigh up the pros and
cons of an argument, determining
whether it makes sense logically as well
as whether it is helpful to us.

6. Appreciative listening
In appreciative listening, we seek
certain information which will
appreciate, for example that which
helps meet ourneedsandgoals.
We use appreciative listening when we
are listening to good music, poetry or
maybe even the stirring words of a
great leader.

7. Sympathetic listening
In sympathetic listening we care about
the other person and show this concern
in the way we pay close attention and
express our sorrow for their ills and
happiness at their joys.

8. Empathetic listening
When we listenempathetically, we go
beyond sympathy to seek a truer
understand how others are feeling.
This requires excellent discrimination
and close attention to the nuances of
emotional signals.
When we are being truly empathetic,
we actually feel what they are feeling.

9. Therapeutic listening
In therapeutic listening, the listener has
a purpose of not only empathizing with
the speaker but also to use this deep
connection in order to help the speaker
understand, change or develop in some
way.

10. Dialogic listening

The word 'dialogue' stems from the
Greek words
'dia', meaning 'through' and
'logos' meaning 'words'.
Dialogic listening is sometimes known as
'relational listening'.

11. Relationship listening

Sometimes the most important factor in
listening is in order to develop or
sustain a relationship.
This is why lovers talk for hours and
attend closely to what each other has
to say when the same words from
someone else would seem to be rather
boring.

TYPES OF LISTENING
1.Discriminative listening
2.Comprehension listening
3.Critical listening
4.Biased listening
5.Evaluative listening

TYPES OF LISTENING
1.Appreciative listening
2.Sympathetic listening
3.Empathetic listening
4.Therapeutic listening
5.Dialogic listening
6.Relationship listening