Chapter 3 THE VALUE OF LISTENING What is the value of listening? -Did you know that we spend more time in listening than we do reading‚ writing‚ or speaking? 40% of our communication time accounts listening. -Through listening we learn to anticipate the action of others and to gauge their emotions Listening is one of the two important activities in the communication process. Ex: Through classroom lectures‚ conversations‚ group meetings‚ electronic media
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Reflective Listening Skills Answers Why is reflective listening important to your work as a parenting practitioner? Describe what your inner attitude needs to be in order to listen helpfully. Reflective listening is a two-fold process which involves: 1. Really hearing and understanding what the other person is saying through words and body language‚ and 2. Reflecting feelings and thoughts you heard through your own words‚ tone-of-voice‚ body posture and gesture so that the other
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RESEARCH QUESTION: HOW DOES LISTENING COMPREHENSION INFLUENCE IN SPEAKING SKILLS IN INTERMEDIATE I AT THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EL SALVADOR? LITERATURE REVIEW Traditionally in the field of foreign language teaching‚ both teachers and learners do not pay much attention to the complexity of this process. The process is itself directed to its basic form of “learning by doing” and “practice makes perfect”. Listening and Speaking are used far more than any other
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Ways to improve the earnings quality in acquisitions and mergers In recent years‚ acquisition and merger activities have boomed as result of improvement in economy and corporate earning. Along with the growing acquisitions and mergers‚ the risk of earnings manipulation and fraud embedded in related complicated transactions has also increased. From past experiences‚ three most common areas that have high risk of earnings management are research and development expenditure‚ restructuring costs
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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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requiring its own unique skill set. However‚ for anyone thinking of embarking on a career as a counselor‚ there are some basic skills in addition to personal attributes required to be effective in any specialty. Throughout a counselor’s career‚ continuous professional development is vital so you will never stop learning. Crouch (1992) suggests that there are four main areas of skills development: counselor awareness‚ personal work‚theoretical understanding and casework skills. Larson et al. (1992)
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Report The purpose of this report is to describe different ways to improve our English in our free time and to say which is better and why. READING BOOKS AND MAGAZINES It’s really useful to read books‚ magazines or whatever we can think of! It increases our vocabulary letter‚ teaching us lots of new words and things that we need to learn in order to be good. We can go to a bookstore or an international press store and we can find an enormous collection of books and magazines for all ages.
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reading do except to improve our reading skills? As a small child‚ we learn the alphabet‚ then we learn to read‚ and from that point on‚ we just continue to improve reading. A common known idea is that reading can develop our knowledge and critical skills throughout our schooling years‚ but studies show that reading fiction can improve empathy‚ awareness‚ and even our social skills. Many argue‚ however‚ that many who read already contain empathy skills and never gain any empathy skills through reading
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presentation‚ our topic is comprehensive listening. We have six persons in a group‚ which is Chong yee ling‚ Naresh‚ Eaw sin yee‚ Chu pei tai‚ Loh yean chi and Wong sue yeng and the first person is group leader.The purpose of this report is to provide a model for students to understand what is the meaning of comprehensive listening‚this presentation contains five major sections. The first concerns goal of comprehensive listening. Here‚ comprehensive listening is listening to the understanding ‚learn‚remember
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Empathetic listening is a learned skill where the listener feels as the speaker instead of for the speaker‚ empathy as opposed to sympathy. It’s a skill that once learned will not come automatically‚ sufficient time must be set aside for it and preparations must be made for it. To be a good empathetic listener one has to let the other parties dominate the discussion‚ stay attentive to what is said‚ hold back from interrupting‚ use open ended questions‚ stay aware and sensitive to the emotions being
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