people equate listening with passivity and weakness. We also live in a multi-sensory commercialized media world that invites us to be distracted from intimate connection with others. It’s wonderful that communication today can be lightning fast‚ yet email or instant messaging is a poor substitute for live‚ unconditional human presence. So how can we learn to be fully present with and for each other? We can do this by learning to listen in a genuinely empathic way. Empathic listening integrates an
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Center for Teaching and Learning Stanford University‚ Stanford CA Characteristics of Effective Listening Ineffective Effective Non-Verbal Behavior Listener looks bored‚ uninterested‚ or judgmental; avoids eye contact; displays distracting mannerisms (doodles‚ plays with a paper clip‚ etc.) Listener maintains positive posture; avoids distracting mannerisms; keeps attention focused on speaker; maintains eye contact; nods and smiles when appropriate Focus of Attention Listener shifts focus of attention
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Types of listening Here are six types of listening‚ starting with basic discrimination of sounds and ending in deepcommunication. Discriminative listening Discriminative listening is the most basic type of listening‚ whereby the difference between difference soundsis identified. If you cannot hear differences‚ then you cannot make sense of the meaning that is expressed bysuch differences. We learn to discriminate between sounds within our own language early‚ and later areunable to discriminate
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Rachel Acrich MUSIC 3 Mike Crain 9/9/10 Listening Experience 0. 1. I chose to sit in a train station so I chose the sound of the wheels of the train. The sound of the wheels of the trains running over the tracks is a very steady rhythm. It is constant and calming in its certainty. After sitting for a while‚ it is a sound that fades into the background if I do not focus on it. This is surprising because it is such a loud‚ dominant sound. 0. 2. My sound is heard fairly constantly
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It is generally recognized that listening comprehension‚ which can be understood as the ability to identify and understand what others say‚ plays a key role in facilitating language learning. Gary (1975) said that giving pre-eminence to listening comprehension‚ particularly in the early stage of second language teaching and learning language. Firstly‚ listening is one of the basic sources of information. It is easy to see that all L2 learners want to understand target language‚ or they want to
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times‚ it is clear to see that the rift between the extremely rich and the extremely poor is expanding‚ with those in the middle being stretched to one extreme or the other. There seems to be no reconciliations for this ever-growing disparity‚ as the corporations that used to comprise solely our economy lose national borders. Robert B. Reich discussed this issue in his work‚ Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor‚ Poorer. There are many reasons that go into play and many factors that sway each
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Teaching Listening Listening is the language modality that is used most frequently. It has been estimated that adults spend almost half their communication time listening‚ and students may receive as much as 90% of their in-school information through listening to instructors and to one another. Often‚ however‚ language learners do not recognize the level of effort that goes into developing listening ability. Far from passively receiving and recording aural input‚ listeners actively involve themselves
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There is an art to listening; and as Julia Wood states about listening‚ “We try to understand not just content but also the person speaking” (Wood 166). In essence‚ the goal of listening is to gasp the message‚ meaning and feelings of the person talking. Therefore‚ there are listening behaviors and listening styles that can either enhance or impede this process and flow of communication. To this point‚ observations have been made of two separate conversations in which listening behaviors and styles
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The Art of Listening Essay “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” (Churchill) Having the capability to give one’s attention to sounds is just as crucial as having the ability to vocalize words. The quote stated above by Winston Churchill signifies how important the art of listening is. Not only is it vital to achieving success‚ it brings many benefits to individuals. But before we can analyze components of how listening is advantageous
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POOR COUNTRIES ARE POOR BECAUSE THEY ARE POOR Poor countries are poor not because they are poor but because they lack the essential resources which are significant for economic growth and development. The African continent is considered as the poorest continent in the world. This is due to political instability which tends to scare away investors thus stunting economic growth of a country. Some of the reasons as to which developing countries are poor are; corrupt governments‚ low illiteracy levels
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