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Improving Your Listening Skills

Improving Your Listening Skills. Dr.Ammar B. Al- Temimi. Goal: To learn how to listen effectively in class and in life Develop students listening abilities Teach basic listening strategies What are the difficulties faced in effective listening

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Improving Your Listening Skills

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  1. Improving Your Listening Skills Dr.Ammar B. Al-Temimi

  2. Goal: To learn how to listen effectively in class and in life • Develop students listening abilities • Teach basic listening strategies • What are the difficulties faced in effective listening • Expose students to different listening situations through activities.

  3. Listening… We were given two ears but only one mouth, because listening is twice as hard as talking.

  4. Listening Differences between hearing and listening

  5. Hearing To perceive sound via the ear

  6. Listening To concentrate on hearing something; heed or pay attention to

  7. Listening… • Characteristics of Listening L = Look interested ( pseudo ) I = Involve yourself by responding ( selective) S = Stay on target T = Test your understanding E = Evaluate the message N = Neutralize your feelings

  8. Barriers to effective listening - Interrupting – knowing the answer -Trying to be helpful - Seeing discussion as competition

  9. What are the Steps to get and enhance the effective Listening? Step 1: Face the speaker and maintain eye contact. Step 2: Be attentive, but relaxed. Step 3: Keep an open mind. Step 4: Listen to the words and try to picture what the speaker is saying. Step 5: Don’t interrupt and don’t impose your “solutions. .

  10. Step 6: Wait for the speaker to pause to ask clarifying questions. Step 7: Ask questions only to ensure understanding. Step 8: Try to feel what the speaker is feeling. Step 9: Give the speaker regular feedback. Step 10: Pay attention to what isn’t said—to nonverbal cues

  11. Listening… Hear Clarify Respond Interpret

  12. Listening… • Most people do not listen effectively! • Concentrate on what they are going to say next rather than what a person is saying.

  13. Listening… • If you become a leader in your organization, why might listening be important?

  14. Listening… “Conversation: a vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.” — Anonymous “Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.” — Ambrose Bierce 

  15. Learning outcomes Explain what we mean by listening skills Identify why listening skills are important, from an employability perspective Identify key reasons why we often fail to listen effectively Adopt simple listening techniques to ensure that you listen effectively

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