Listening: A Macro-Skill (Education)
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The document discusses the importance of listening as a critical language skill that has often been neglected in education. It emphasizes that effective listening involves processing sound, interpreting meaning, and retaining information, which is essential for effective communication and relationship-building. It also notes that many students may hear words without truly understanding their significance due to a lack of attention to context and the speaker's intent.
Listening: A Macro-Skill (Education)
- 2. “A mental operation involving processing sound waves, interpreting their meaning, and storing their meaning in memory.”
- 4. What did the lady asked to the guy with the bike? What did the lady wanted to find? Did the guy answered back? YES or NO Did the guy admitted that he did not paid attention in school? What did the guy with the bike said after the lady left?
- 5. Sad to say, out of the four language skills, LISTENING HAS BEEN SADLY NEGLECTED
- 6. Basically ORAL Students should develop their listening and speaking skills side by side with their reading and writing skills 60% - 70%
- 7. HOW MUCH OF WHAT THEY HEAR DO THEY UNDERSTAND?
- 8. Accurate and perceptive listening will minimize misunderstandings and help students to sustain satisfying and productive relationships. Careful listening can be critical to work situations.
- 9. Listening enables listeners to provide feedback to speakers. Effective listening abilities strengthen the other language arts: reading comprehension and written communication.
- 10. LISTENING - A complex skill that requires attention and energy Involves; Recognition Selection Short Memory Inference
- 11. A creative skill. We hear sounds, words, the rise and fall of voice, from all which we create significance. We listen not for the words alone but for the meanings.
- 12. Linguistic information which the listeners perceive aurally of sounds, words, and their arrangements in utterances Situational context of the utterance Intentions of the speaker
- 13. Many of our students can hear but do not comprehend because it is only the linguistic content of the utterance that is given attention.