Spring-2024-Priesthoods of Augustus Yale Historical Review
listening skills.ppt
1. Strategies for improving listening skills
Listening is yet another most difficult
task, from an audience’s perspective.
Listening is as important as speaking,
writing and reading.
Some of the areas need consideration
are:
Faults in Listening
Purposes for Listening
Results of Good Listening
2. Strategies for improving listening skills
Faults in Listening
Some of the factors responsible for
poor listening are:
Prejudice against the speaker
External distractions
Thinking speed
Premature evaluation
Semantic stereotypes
Delivery
3. Strategies for improving listening skills
Faults in Listening
Prejudice against the speaker
Listeners are distracted because who
the speaker is conflicts with their
attitudes.
4. Strategies for improving listening skills
Faults in Listening
External distractions
External distraction may be caused
due to stammering speaker, speaker’s
clothing, excessive gestures.
5. Strategies for improving listening skills
Faults in Listening
Thinking speed
Speaking is lesser words pr minute,
but processing while thinking goes
faster per minute.
6. Strategies for improving listening skills
Faults in Listening
Premature evaluation
Many people have tendency to jump
to conclusions very fast, without
waiting for the speakers to complete
their message.
7. Strategies for improving listening skills
Faults in Listening
Semantic stereotypes
Some words bother some people.
Internal reactions to words vary
from person to person.
It is largely a result of feelings,
attitudes, prejudices, and biases one
carries.
The listener tunes out the speaker if
some words annoy him/her.
8. Strategies for improving listening skills
Faults in Listening
Delivery
Delivering speech by reading
verbatim may also cause listeners to
lose interest.
Confused delivery of ideas without
properly tying up with the main
theme of the presentation could also
distract the listeners’ attention.
9. Strategies for improving listening skills
Purposes for Listening
There are at least four reasons why
people would like to listen:
To Gain New Information and Ideas
To Question and Test Evidence
To Be Inspired
To Improve one’s Own
Communication
10. Strategies for improving listening skills
Results of Good Listening
Good listening gives following
benefits:
It leads to helpful, positive attitudes –
by understanding the hindrances that
lie in the way of good listening.
Permits the speaker and listeners
improve communication as each side
becomes receptive to the other.
11. Strategies for improving listening skills
Results of Good Listening
Good listening gives following
benefits (contd.):
Indicates by feedback to the speaker
that listeners are interested; which in
turn motivates speaker to give his/her
best.
Helps listeners obtain useful
information.
12. Strategies for improving listening skills
Results of Good Listening
Good listening gives following
benefits (contd.):
Creates better understanding of
others and thus helps listeners work
with others.
Helps the speaker (especially in an
interview) in talking out a problem.
