The Importance Of Listening Skills

Thus, it is essential for students to understand the language they are exposed to and respond appropriately so that they can become competent users of that particular language. Seferoglu and Uzakgöre (2004) cited in Tavil (2010) indicate that listening is an interactive process. The listener does not always just listen to, but he or she also reacts to the speaker or asks questions for clarification. The most essential issue for the students should be to understand what they are listening to and be able to give appropriate responses orally. This aim clarifies the integration of

Turner (2009) mentioned that ‘Listening is used at least three times as much as speaking and at least four times as much as reading and writing. Listening is an essential skill

Thus, listening skills is a process and skill that can help improve and benefit us as leaders, employees and as communicator. Listening skills is beneficial in the community, workplace as well as personal relationships. Many advantages for developing listening skills are learning new information, business progressing towards success and building relationships. With proper education and training and practice listening skills are

It's highly unlikely, regardless of how good you are as a key account manager, that you will never face the prospect of an unhappy customer in one of your key accounts. Issues happen. There are always aspects that are out of your personal control, so being prepared to deal with one of your key customer's unhappiness ahead of time is well advised. In the heat of the moment is not when you want to strategically try to come up with a plan to diffuse your customer as quickly as possible.

From Go Natural English Lesson by Gabby Wallace, there are 5 secrets for listening success

This semester I learned it is my job as the practitioner to listen to the clients tell their story, rather than try to be the person to solve their problems.

The ability to listen actively is the most primitive of the communication skill yet the most difficult to master. Active listening is also essential to communicate well with others. Active listening demonstrates both verbally and nonverbally when having a reciprocal conversation that the listener is truly attentive to what it is being said.

This course has taught me that one shouldn’t expect one approach to work on every client. In addition, I learned that having patience is very important, and responding to clients is second to listening. My field experience has also helped me reflect on myself, because I thought starting a conversation with a client would be easy, but it has been challenging. There aren’t a lot of things I could find as a good conversation starter, I have been doing better than my first day but it is something I will continue to work on. Since the beginning of this course and fieldwork, I haven’t changed a lot, I still carry the same values. One thing that has changed, are my listening skills; in this class and in my fieldwork, I learned that instead of responding,

A conundrum about teachers’ attitudes towards students as listeners is that although most teachers assume students come to school knowing how to listen, those same teachers agree that students need to learn more about listening since it is a skill crucial for learning. Four types of listening have been distinguished according to an individual’s purpose for listening. Those types are: discriminative listening, aesthetic listening, efferent listening, and critical listening. From early years, students take part in discriminative and aesthetic listening, as these types of listening create the early groundwork for learning to read. Students engage in efferent listening when they begin to understand that they listen to learn specific information

I am glad that you emphasized active listening skills. As stated in the first post, communication is defined as a two-way process to express a message or pass on information and this process has to include a speaker and a listener.

Most of my experience in trying to quickly establish a helping relationship of mutual trust and respect is with people in the middle of a traumatic event. I always remain calm and keep a level voice, I want them to feel like they are being treated in a warm and friendly manner. I normally use active listening skills in order to convey respect for the individual and make them feel like their problem is important and a priority. Especially when helping someone in a panic state, using repetitive persistence has been very beneficial. In that, I will repeat as many times as needed, “I need you to tell me what you need so we can help you (or a family/friend that may be in distress),” to get the person to focus on the situation and let them know

In order to improve students’ listening comprehension they should use their prior knowledge. In a typical reading lesson there are “pre” activities, “while” activities, and “post” activities. In reading learners can skim a text quickly to get a good idea what it’s about, but listeners cannot skim. In listening lesson also has “pre”, “while” and “post” listening tasks. Each of these tasks is very important in order to ensure that the students understand

Listening is more complex, and it encourages one to analyze and think about an idea, rather than to simply accept it (or “hear” it). Hearing is a skill that is beneficial for every aspect of life. As long as we have our ability to hear, we will always perceive different sounds, music, and voices. Listening, however, is beneficial to us in specific instances. It is important for us to attain good listening skills in education, the work force, and in our relationships with others in order to succeed. Good listening in education will bring about confident participation in class discussions; good listening in the workplace will lead to cooperation and good teamwork among colleagues; good listening in relationships is healthy and positive, for it is important to hear what an individual has to say in order to know how they feel.

Listening, which is simply the understanding of the spoken language, is another vital part of language arts (Roe & Ross, 2006). This skill is a receptive skill and is quite often not given enough attention in a classroom setting

Listening is one of the important skills among three other English skills; reading, writing and speaking. Listening play significant role in language development. Listening is the ability to hear and understand what other people say. It is also the basic skill that we have in learning language because we listen before we speak. Just take the example of the babies. Before they can talk with their parents, they only give signs when they want to communicate with them by crying. They only listen to the speech or sounds that close to them. By the time, they gain all of knowledge and information from the people near them. Then, they start to imitate and try to speak. Of course, this takes time, the babies cannot talk directly when they listen to the language. So, this is the same as the learners who try to learn English as a second language. Especially in listening ability. Listening is a receptive skill because the learners do not need to produce the language. They only receive and try to understand the language. Receptive