3. Outline:
What is listening skills?
Important of listening skills?
Role of listening in our life?
How can we improve our listening skills?
Barrier of listening skills?
Conclusion?
4. Introduction
Listening is the most critical communication skill. students are
involved in various listening situation 65% to 90% of time but most
students have little or no listening instruction.
“ listening is a fundamental language skill, but it is often ignored by
foreign and second language teachers” (rebeccal,1993)
5. So, the listening skill should be a major area of concern to teacher
and students of a second or foreign language, this is the concern of
this chapter which tends to summarize what is essential to be known
about the listening process as it relates to foreign language learning.
It is intended to provide an otherwise of the key concept and issues
involved in understanding listening, it discusses the nature and type of
listening, some constraints or difficulties faced by EFL learners in
developing their listening, some suggested guidelines to consider
when teaching this skill.
6. What is the listening skills?
Listening is a vital component of the oral communication, the
interactive process in which the individual takes the role of speaker
and listener through a verbal and non verbal component.
Listening is a essential part of communication process. Students spend
the majority of each school day by listening and much of what
students know is acquired through listening.
Yet listening is a vital mental capacity of the principal ways through
which we understand and take part in the world around us.
“listening is considered to be a part of oracy, a capacity to formulate
thought verbally and to communicate with others so it is the skills
underline all verbal communication”
7. “listening is considered to be a part of oracy, a capacity
to formulate thought verbally and to communicate with
others so it is the skills underline all verbal
communication”
( By Rost, 1994)
It is suggested that listening can be done in a narrow and limited way, as it
was said:
“listening is not merely not talking …it means taking a
vigorous human interest in what is being told us. You
can listen like blank mall or like a splendid auditorium
where every sounds comes back fuller and richer”
( by Miller, Goodith, 2001,48 )
8. Importance of listening skill
Benefits of Listening
Listening should not be taken for granted. Before the invention of
writing, people conveyed virtually all knowledge through some
combination of showing and telling.
Myths, legends, folktales, and stories for entertainment survived only
because audiences were eager to listen.
Nowadays, however, you can gain information and entertainment
through reading and electronic recordings rather than through real-
time listening.
9. You Become a Better Student
When you focus on the material presented in a classroom, you will be
able to identify not only the words used in a lecture but their emphasis
and their more complex meanings.
Many times, instructors give verbal cues about what information is
important, specific expectations about assignments.
And even what material is likely to be on an exam, so careful listening
can be beneficial.
10. You Become a Better Friend
When you give your best attention to people expressing thoughts and
experiences that are important to them, those individuals are likely to
see you as someone who cares about their well-being.
This fact is especially true when you give your attention only and
refrain from interjecting opinions, judgments, and advice.
11. People Will Perceive You as Intelligent and
Perceptive
When you listen well to others, you reveal yourself as being curious and
interested in people and events.
In addition, your ability to understand the meanings of what you hear
will make you a more knowledgeable and thoughtful person.
12. Good Listening Can Help Your Public
Speaking
When you listen well to others, you start to pick up more on the stylistic
components related to how people form arguments and present
information.
As a result, you have the ability to analyze what you think works and
doesn’t work in others’ speeches, which can help you transform your
speeches in the process.
13. Role of listening skill in our life
Hearing is the physical ability, while listening is a skill. Listening skills allow
one to make sense of and understand what another person is saying. In other
words, listening skills allow people to understand what someone is talking
about-the meaning behind the words.
Good listening skills make workers more productive. The ability to listen
carefully allows workers to better understand assignments they are given.
They are able to understand what is expected of them by their management.
14. Workers who listen well tend to work better in a team-based environment.
Team members are usually assigned a portion of the work.
Those who were able to listen well and perform accordingly will find their
work results fit better than those who misunderstood.
-Maintain eye contact with the speaker. This will demonstrate to the speaker
that the listener is paying attention.
15. A good listener knows that being attentive to what the speaker doesn't say is
as important as being attentive to what he does say. Look for nonverbal cues
such as facial expressions and posture to get the full gist of what the speaker
is saying.
The ability to listen and to comprehend also allows workers to build a strong
rapport with coworkers. Employers and managers have confidence in workers
that can listen to instructions and then do what is expected .
Good listeners also have a better track record resolving problems with
customers.
16. The United States Department of Labor
Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary
Skills (SCANS) identified five competencies and
three foundation skills that are essential for those
entering the workforce.
Listening skills were among the foundation
skills SCANS identified as being critical.
17. How can we improve our listening skill ?
1. Reading is a powerful way to increase vocabulary. Besides, when we
read in a foreign language, we usually subvocalize, in other words we
make the sounds in our heads. This is going to help your listening
skills.
2. If possible, try to find content that has matching audio and text so
that you can look up words or phrases that you are missing.
3.This is not necessary but help Try to stay within a narrow range of
topics which cover more or less the same vocabulary, in your case
current events and politics.
18. 3. When you find audio content that you like, where you are
interested in the subject and like the voice, listen more than once to
the same audio material. I have found that this not only helps with
pronunciation but also with comprehension.
4. Plan to tackle some longer content in your field of interest. This
could be an audio book on history or current events for which you
have the text.
5.You can then import the book into Link and save the audio to your
mp3 player or smart phone.
6.Make sure you like the voice of the narrator and find the subject
interesting.
19. I have found that interspersing short material with a longer book is
powerful. The comfort of a familiar environment, as I grow
accustomed to the voice and context, gives me confidence and
improves my overall listening skills.
There is also a great sense of satisfaction when I complete the book.
The feeling that I have climbed a mountain.
20. 7. Wherever possible, while listening or reading for meaning, try to
focus on a few phrases or terms that you have just discovered or
noticed.
8. When you are at an intermediate or higher level in a language, you
need to speak a lot. If you have a tutor, get him or her to give you a
Google Doc.
You will then pay more attention to these words and phrases in your
reading and listening.
This makes your listening more focused and gives it more resonance,
as you come across words and phrases that you once tried to use.
21. 8. Most of all remain relaxed, focus on enjoyment, and be confident
that you can improve your listening skills a great deal in two months if
you remain committed to these activities.
22. Barrier of listening skills?
Pre-judgment.
Speed of delivery.
Clarity of voice.
Accent and dialect.
Loss by transmission.
Lack of interest.
Poor listening.
Unfamiliar topic/ Meaningless context.
23. Barrier of listening skills?
Language.
Noise.
Lack of motivation.
Time and distance.
Lack of planning.
Information overloaded.
Uncomfortable seating arrangements.
Uncomfortable environment.
24. Conclusion?
You do not listen with just your ears.
You listen with your eyes and with your sense of touch.
You listen with your mind, your heart, your imagination.
Talk only if you have something to say.
