how to improve your english listening ?? Listening is the dominate communication act. We have to avoid bad listening habit as a communication professor, I have taught these for years. 1. Faking Attention 2. Avoiding Difficult Material 3. Selective Perception 4. Observation-Inference Confusion 5. Yielding to Distractions 6. Criticizing the speakers delivery 7. On again-off again listening I think to improve you need to evaluate yourself as a listener. Part of that is looking over these bad listening habits and reflecting on whether you do them and how much. There are some activities you can do like listening to somebody or something and take a quiz for retention. However, overall the best listening advice is to avoid bad listening habits, and be an active listener versus a passive one. Listening poorly cost students points on their grades, employees work performance, and it cost people in relationships because people feel disconfirmed when they believe they are not being truly listened to but just heard. Bad listening habits are generic and in many communication books. There are a limited amount of books about just listening, but you can look at Joseph Devitos text and get it cheap on amazon if you would like a source. Some last minute tips Id offer are: 1. Look for a common ground in the topic 2. Have good eye contact 3. If appropriate take notes 4. Ask follow up questions for clarity 5. Use paraphrasing back to the sender of a message to get external verification on your understanding
Posted on: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 15:54:54 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015