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Listening to a conversation with person always maintains your personal relationship, professional work related and some other activities. In this article ’The Art of Listening’ what I really liked and found important was, the author

Listen empathically – focus on the person and the emotions that underlie his or her

I have always been told that am not very good at listening, therefore, I choose the skill of listening as a means of evaluating myself and observing how this skill is used by me and towards others whom I have contact with. During this process I decided to take the Self-Assessment 8.3: Active Listening Skills Inventory offered on the website http://highered.mheducation.com.

First of all it was more of a presentation, and it was also a summary of the seven main effective listening responses. Adia’s presentation focused on the seven responses; prompting, questioning, paraphrasing, supportive, analyzing, advising, and judging. Adia’s definitions of the responses we simply put and easy to understand. Adia also included in her presentation what the possible outcomes of each response can be; in what ways it would be helpful to another person. When it came to the question response, Adia went in depth with what kinds of questioning there is when you use this as a listening response. In some of the responses, such as paraphrasing, Adia included what seemed to be warning labels explaining how the use of the response is supposed to seem like. Adia’s presentation was helpful to me and I would recommend it for someone who has not heard of the listening

The Target Bulls-eye logo has become instantly recognizable and synonymous with high quality and style at affordable prices. From its origins in 1902 as The Dayton Dry Goods Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota to the opening of the first Target store in 1962 in Roseville, Minnesota, Target Corporation has grown into one of top five retailers in the United States today with over 1,600 stores and 350,000 employees. Total revenues and net earnings for 2008 reached $64.9 billion and $2.2 billion respectively (Target Corporation, n.d.). Such results rank Target as the 28th largest U.S. Corporation with a market value of $25.7 billion as of March 2009 (Largest U.S., 2009). Innovative marketing strategies

A means of making the best brands sold at the Target store is a priority which they have decided to use to make it a challenge that we get items we have thought of as an effectively planned strategy we are usually concerned and use for our consumer needs. Target has 1557 stores operating in 47 states in the US.

| Arpit Minhas, Tim Gaugler, Christopher ScwartzRetailing –Marketing 327 Fall 2015 – Dr. Denise T. Ogden

Listening skill is a vital skill that everyone must obtain in order to succeed in any career field. According to Elmhost (2013), “Talking instead of listening can lead professionals to miss important information. One analysis of physician–patient interviews revealed that the more doctors talked, the more they got off track and failed to address concerns raised by the patients.” (p.61). All the listening styles in the textbook are all valuable and all of them are essential for developing and improving listening ability. There two types of listening styles that are very functional at a working environment which are critical listening and task-oriented listening and most people are using these styles every day at work. Critical listening is when

The Target Corporation, what used to be known as the Dayton Dry Goods Co., is an American retailing company that was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1902. In 1962, the first Target store was opened in Roseville, Minnesota. It is the fifth largest retailer by sales revenue in the United States behind Wal-Mart, The Home Depot, Kroger and Costco. The company is ranked 33rd on the 2007 Fortune 500. Target operates its retailing business exclusively in the United States. It is a rival with Kmart and Wal-Mart. Target was listed in Internet Retailer's list of the top 500 retail web sites in 2007 also, this not only proves of brick and mortar sucsess but also online retail.

Assignment 1 is worth 20% of your total mark for this course; it should be submitted after you have completed the readings and learning activities for Lessons 1 through 6.

There are several methods to achieving effective listening. Concentrate on what others are saying. Make yourself shut out other challenges facing you and simply listen. Don't allow yourself to do other things as you listen, such as answering the phone, doing paperwork, or checking your e-mail. Effective listening is difficult and requires all of your attention and effort. The listener needs to focus on what is being said so they will not misinterpret what the speaker is trying to say. Paraphrase or rephrase what the speaker was saying in your own words to ensure that you heard the information accurately. It is important to

Listening is to coherent speaking as reading is to effective writing. English and all other language irrespective of nation or dialect is a totality of four skills: Listening, reading, writing, speaking. Underwood (1989) simplified the definition of listening to "the activity of paying attention to and trying to get meaning from something we hear" (p. 1). Mendelsohn (1994) defines listening comprehension as ―the ability to understand the spoken language of native speakers.''

Listening is a vital element of communication and it is very much different from hearing sense of human. A meaningful communication requires both a good listener and a speaker. However, the effect of a listening style may vary depending on the occasions and situations a listener is in. Sometimes, speaker exhibit ineffective style such as defensiveness, ambushing, pseudo-listening, stage hogging and selective listening in their communication tracks.

The theme of english lesson in Video 3 is job interview with a large number of students, nearly as many as fifty, who are native Chinese teenagers while teacher may be a native English speakers( at least good at English). Because of the education system in China, most of the Chinese students study English from Grade 3 in primary school, who already have some basic English vocabulary and grammar storage like simple greeting, food, verbs about movement and so on though not mastery in them. Meanwhile, They are capable of making simple sentence. Therefore, teacher began to teach students some English skills, like listening, in middle school. The lesson is divided into three parts: pre-listening, while listening, post-listening. In the pre-listening part, this teacher lead students review some details about the listening transcript. While listening, students answer the question sheet and afterwards, check the answers during

The reflective cycle underscores in SALL also guided me to evaluate the effectiveness of each pair of method and material to review whether modifications should be made to achieve more. I also realized feedbacks from other people could allow me to identify my weaknesses and make improvements on my original goals. Undoubtedly, SALL has provided me a valuable experience to learn English in a more independent way because I am the only person to decide what to do in SALL. Nonetheless, the duration I put in SALL activities was just 15 hours, which was far too short to guarantee an improvement in IELTS writing and speaking. Therefore, I will continue to explore new methods to practice English independently to fulfill the IELTS requirement of postgraduate study. The end of SALL doesn’t mean the end of English learning; instead this marks a new beginning in my journey of learning