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Lecture On Listening

Listening is more than just hearing - it requires giving thoughtful attention to understand another person's words. To listen means to acknowledge and value what the other person says. Effective listening can be hindered by various interferences, including the listener being distracted or assuming they already know what will be said, as well as issues with the speaker like using jargon, casual language, or cluttered speech. Proper listening involves focusing on the speaker's purpose and main ideas, taking notes, and providing feedback to show engagement with the content.

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Lecture On Listening

Listening is more than just hearing - it requires giving thoughtful attention to understand another person's words. To listen means to acknowledge and value what the other person says. Effective listening can be hindered by various interferences, including the listener being distracted or assuming they already know what will be said, as well as issues with the speaker like using jargon, casual language, or cluttered speech. Proper listening involves focusing on the speaker's purpose and main ideas, taking notes, and providing feedback to show engagement with the content.

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THE BASICS OF LISTENING

How is LISTENING different from


HEARING?
HEARING
Listening

• It is the process of giving thoughtful attention


to another person’s words and understanding
what you hear.
• To listen means to confirm – recognize,
acknowledge, and express value to another
person
REMEMBER NOISE???
Interferences

• Interference refers to anything that stops


or hinders a listener from receiving a
message
– Listener Interference

– Speaker Interference
Listener Interference
• Thinking that you’re not interested in the subject
before the speech commences
• Assuming that you know what the speaker will deliver
• Getting so focused on the details that you miss the
bigger point
• Daydream or pretend you are listening when you really
aren’t
Speaker Interference

• Listenable / Considerate Speech


– Speech that is considerate and delivered in an oral
style and in which eases the audience’s burden of
processing information
Think you can recognize these?
• Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minific!
• Members of an avian species of identical plumage
congregate.
• Surveillance should precede saltation.
• Pulchritude possesses a solely cutaneous profundity.
• It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitately
departed lacteal fluid.
They simply mean…

• Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

• Birds of the same feather flock together.

• Look before you leap.

• Beauty is only skin deep.


How about these?
• Freedom from encrustations of grime is contiguous to
rectitude.
• Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate scion.
• It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated
canine with innovative maneuvers.
• The temperature of aqueous content of an unremittingly
ogled sauce-pan does not reach 212 degrees F.
• All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly
auriferous.
Again, they mean…
• Cleanliness is next to godliness.
• Spare the rod and spoil the child.
• You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
• A watched pot never boils.
• All that glitters is not gold.
Causes of Speaker Interference
• Language
– Formal and Technical Language
– Casual Language
• Slang
• Colloquialism
• Euphemism
• Non-inclusive Language
– Cluttering
Formal and Technical Language
• Jargon
– technical language used by a special
group or for a special activity
– Examples:
• oculo sinister (right eye)
• Nares (nose)
Casual Language
• Slang
– Informal nonstandard vocabulary, usually made
up of arbitrarily changed words
– Examples:
• Dogg, this track is off the hook! (Buddy, this song is
great!)
• Let me drop some science (I’ll explain the facts to you.)
Casual Language

• Euphemism
– Word or phrase that substitutes an agreeable or
inoffensive expression for one that may offend or
suggest something unpleasant.
– Example:
• Due to changing market forces, the company will be
downsizing.
Non-inclusive Language

• Non-inclusivity is the use of language


excluding or downgrading certain members of
some groups in society (Recall our lesson
about Language and Culture).
What to do?

• Use GENDER-INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE

• Use CULTURALLY-INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE

• Avoid Spotlighting
Cluttering

• Cluttering or verbal clutter involves the use of


extra words that pad sentences and claims but
do not add meaning.
– Examples:
• “it’s like…”, “and all that…”, “stuffs like that…”
Remedying Verbal Clutter

• Cluttered: Good, effective public speakers use


carefully selected and chosen words,
sentences, and phrases, correctly and
accurately.
• Uncluttered: Skilled speakers present their
ideas clearly.
POP QUIZ!!!!
(1/8 sheet of paper please)
• Cluttered: If nothing else, he was first and
foremost, above all, a man of considerable
honor and principled integrity.

• A less cluttered sentence:


sentence At some point
during the day, every day of her life, she made
the three-mile trek to the Katibawasan Falls.
How to Listen Carefully?
• Listen for the Speaker’s Purpose
• Listen for the Main Ideas
• Listen for Supporting Evidence and Sources
• Listen for Consistency of Delivery and Content
• Write Down New Words, Ideas and Questions
• Offer Nonverbal Feedback
• Listen for the Conclusion
ALL ABOUT RECEIVERS NEXT
MEETING!!!

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