LISTENING

Lecture No. 2ENG 103

“Let anyone who has an ear

listen!”

- Revelations 2:7

LISTENING• A very important area of communication• Begins with a willingness to participate completely in a

communicative situation• Stimulates better communication between the parties

involved• Contributes to and promotes better responses among

the members of the group• Helps you enjoy what you hear• Assists in understanding what is being said• Enables one to react to what is said

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HEARING AND

LISTENING?

HEARING is automatic. . . .

LISTENING is LEARNED.

Hearing vs Listening

Hearing is a physiological process in which sound waves entering the outer ear is transmitted to the eardrum, converted in the middle ear, and changed in the inner ear into electrical impulses to the brain.

Hearing vs Listening

Listening on the other hand, is a psychological process that begins with receiving the sound, then, identification and recognition of

specific auditory signals and ends in comprehension

Attention factor

Auditory discrimination

Listening comprehension

STAGES OF LISTENING

ATTENTION FACTOR• People may have the auditory ability, but they

do not use it.• Their ears must be alert.• You need time to listen to sounds around you.• To improve your attention factor, you must do

a great deal of listening, by focusing attention on the tones and noises you hear.

ACTIVITY:

• Sit quietly in the room. Listen to the sounds you hear. Write down all the sounds you hear. Compare the sounds you listed with your classmates.

AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION

• This mainly involves listening to sounds and analyzing them on the basis of quality, pitch, loudness and rate.

LISTENING COMPREHENSION

• Also known as aural comprehension• This is the process of translating and

interrelating sounds, quality, pitch, loudness and rate into thought symbols.

• Specifically, it is the ability of the listener to understand and respond to significant signals and oral messages.

The listening process

Reception• Taking in

messages through auditory and visual stimuli

• People retain only 25 percent of what they hear, so make sure you “WOW” them

Purposes of Listening• Discriminative listening• Comprehensive listening• Therapeutic listening• Critical listening• Appreciative listening

REFERENCES:

www.slideshare.net

Flores, Carmelita S. and Evelyn B. Lopez. Effective Speech Communication. Mandaluyong City: National Book Store, Inc. 1998.