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Listening Skills

Listening Skills. Listening Skills. Listening is an everyday affair. We spend more time to listening than speaking It is a skill which is often taken for granted It is considered as a stressful task Successful listening is challenging and requires a lot of practice

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Listening Skills

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  1. Listening Skills

  2. ListeningSkills • Listening is an everydayaffair. • We spend more time to listening thanspeaking • It is a skill which is often taken forgranted • It is considered as a stressfultask • Successful listening is challenging and requires a lot of practice • Effective listening is a dynamic activity that seeks out the meaning intended in the messages sent by the speaker.

  3. Listening VsHearing • Hearing is an involuntary act that happens automatically. Eg. A truck rolling by on the road infront of ourhouse. • Listening– • voluntaryactivity, • demands perfect coordination between the ears & the brain • verycreative • Interactive and interpretiveprocess.

  4. Techniques for EffectiveListening • You should have an openmind. • You should sit alert and look the speaker in the eye with a view to establish your interest inhim/her. • Do not prejudge the speaker or hismessage. • Summarize what the speaker issaying • Take downnotes • Link what you are listening to what you alreadyknow. • Do not interrupt the speakerunnecessarily. • Ask relevant questions to yourself for clarity in your understanding.

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