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 What is listening?

ï Listening is the absorption of the meanings of

words and sentences by the brain.
ï leads to the understanding of facts and ideas.
ï takes attention, or sticking to the task at
hand in spite of distractions.
ï It requires concentration, which is the
focusing of your thoughts upon one
particular problem.
ï @ person who incorporates listening with
concentration is actively listening.
ï @ctive listening is a method of responding to
another that encourages communication.
 àoor Listening Habits and Good
Listening Habits
àoor Listening Habits àoor Listeners... Good Listeners...

Criticizing a speaker criticize the speaker's realize that a lecture is not

voice, clothes, or looks. a popularity contest. Good
Therefore, they decide listeners look for the ideas
that the speaker won`t say being presented, not for
anything important. things to criticize.

Finding fault with the become so involved in listen with the mind, not
speaker disagreeing with the emotions. Good
something the speaker listeners jot down
states that they stop something they disagree
listening to the remainder with to ask the speaker
of the lecture later, then go on listening.
@llowing yourself to be use little distractions -- filter out distractions and
distracted someone coughing, a concentrate on what the
pencil dropping, the door speaker is saying.
opening and closing -- as
an excuse to stop listening.

Faking attention look at the speaker but understand that speakers

don't listen. They expect talk about what they think
to get the material from is most important. Good
the textbook later. listeners know that a good
lecture may not contain
the same information as
the textbook.

Forcing every lecture into outline the lecture in adjust their style of note-
one format detail. The listener is so taking to the speaker's
concerned with topic and method of
organization that he organization.
misses the content.
Listening only for facts only want the facts. They
consider everything else to
be only the speaker's
opinion.
Listening to only the easy think it is too difficult to
material follow the speaker's
complicated ideas and
logics. @ poor listener
wants entertainment, not
education.
Calling a subject boring decide a lecture is going to
be dull and "turn out" the
speaker.
want to see how the facts
and examples support the
speaker's ideas and
arguments. Good listeners
know that, examples are
important because they
support ideas.
want to learn something
new and try to understand
the speaker's point. @
good listener is not afraid
of difficult, technical, or
complicated ideas.
listen closely for
information that can be
important and useful,
even when a lecture is
dull.
ßverreacting to "push get upset at words which
button" emotional words trigger certain emotions --
words such as communist,
income tax, Hitler or
abortion. Emotion begins
and listening ends.
Wasting thought speed move along lazily with the
speaker even though
thinking is faster than
speaking. @ poor listener
daydreams and falls
behind.
hear these same words.
When they do, they listen
very carefully. @ good
listener tries to
understand the speaker's
point of view.
use any extra time or
pauses in the lecture to
reflect on the speaker's
message. They think about
what the speaker is saying,
summarize the main
points, and think about
the next points.