LisListening Skills Flashcards
What Is Listening?
It is also defined as the ability to receive meaningful sounds, understand the sounds so received, interpret them and respond to the demand made through those meaningful sounds.
What is the Listening Process
Receiving
Understanding
Remembering
Evaluating
Responding
Difference Between Listening And Hearing
Listening is an active task which requires an individual’s mental concentration with the aim of understanding the message being conveyed which may be in form of words, sentences
Hearing on the other hand is a passive reception of sound waves which may not require one to pay serious attention to thus one can hear without making sense out what is being heard simply because the hearer did not pay attention to that which was heard.
What are the Listening Situations and Their Definitions
Interactive Setting: In this type of setting or communicative event, the listener is able to provide an immediate response in between the communication.
Non-interactive Setting. This is the communicative event or situation in which the listener is unable to Non-interactive Setting. This is the communicative event or situation in which the listener is unable to
Partially Interactive Setting
In this situation, the listener is not allowed to some certain extent to interrupt the flow of communication until when the speaker stops speaking or gives the listener(s) the opportunity to ask questions
Types of Listening
Courteous Listening: This kind of listening entails listening without concentrating or paying attention to what is being said.
Active Listening: This particular type of listening requires full concentration. The level of involvement is very high.
Critical Listening: The purpose of critical listening is to acquire knowledge, understand the message and then pass judgement.
Discriminative Listening: it involves listening for specific sounds. Here we engage in listening to scan and filter what to absorb and what not to.
