Listening Skills : First Rule of Communication

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Listening Skills :  Seek first to understand, then to be understood

• Pay attention to others
• Willing to judge the speaker ideas
• Able to organise what they hear
• Able to think questions to ask the speaker
• Will him/her able to find the speaker’s personal habits distraction

Listening Skills
Use of TV, Recorder and Radio
Comprehending conversions on everyday social life
Sample Self-assessment Listening Inventory
Learning How to Listen
· Do I pay attention? A) Yes B) No C) Sometimes
· Do noises in the room interrupt my careful listening?
· Am I willing to judge the speaker’s ideas without letting my own ideas get in
the way?
· Do I find the speaker’s personal habits distracting (e.g., clearing the throat
constantly)?
Listening for Information
· Can I organize in my mind what I hear so that I can remember it?
· Can I think up questions to ask the speaker about ideas that I don’t understand?
· Do I understand the meaning of unknown words from the rest of what the
speaker says?
Listening Carefully
· Can I separate facts from explanations or from opinions?

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· Can I tell the difference between important and unimportant details?
· Can I pick out unsupported points that a speaker makes?
· Am I able to accept points of view that differ from my own?
Listening Creatively
· Am I able to identify specific words or phrases that impress me as I listen?
· Do I get caught up in the poem, story, or play so that I believe the action is
truly taking place?
· Am I able to put what I hear into my own words so that I can describe it to
others?