Listening and Learning Survey - Bhavana Learning Group

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Review the checklist of ten habits below to examine in which area your listening serves you, and where you require more practice in this art and skill.

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What is Listening?

If you ask a group of students to give a one-word description of listening, some would say hearing; however, hearing is physical. Listening is following, absorbing understanding, and integrating the sound – it is hearing with a purpose. It is a generative act.

• Good listening is built on basic conditions: attitude, attention, and absorption. These conditions can be known collectively as triple-A listening.

• Listening is the absorption of the ideas and meanings of words and sentences by the brain.

• Listening leads to the understanding of facts, ideas (content) and meaning (context).

• But listening takes attention, or focusing on the task at hand in spite of distractions.

• It requires attitude, which is framing your attention in a particular way.

Review the checklist of ten habits below in the context of listening with learning (as in a course) to examine in which area your listening serves you, and where you require more practice in this art and skill.

1- Criticizing a speaker

1- Criticizing a speaker(Required)

MORE PRACTICE: Criticize the speaker's voice, clothes, or looks. Therefore, they decide that the speaker won't say anything important.

GOOD LISTENER: Realize that a lecture is not a popularity contest. Good listeners look for the ideas being presented, not for things to criticize.

2- Finding fault with the speaker

2- Finding fault with the speaker

MORE PRACTICE: Become so involved in disagreeing with something the speaker states that they stop listening to the remainder of the information.

GOOD LISTENER: Listen with the mind, not the emotions. Good listeners jot down something they disagree with to ask the speaker later, then go on.

3- Allowing yourself to be distracted

3- Allowing yourself to be distracted(Required)

MORE PRACTICE: Use little distractions -- someone coughing, a pencil dropping, the door opening and closing -- as an excuse to stop listening.

GOOD LISTENER: Filter out (bracket) distractions and concentrate on what the speaker is saying.

4- Faking attention

4- Faking attention(Required)

MORE PRACTICE: Look at the speaker but don't listen. They expect to get the material from the textbook later.

GOOD LISTENER: Understand that speaker’s talk about what they think is most important. Know that a good lecture may not be the same as the textbook.

5- Forcing every lecture into one format

5- Forcing every lecture into one format(Required)

MORE PRACTICE: Outline the lecture in detail. The listener is so concerned with organization that they miss the content.

GOOD LISTENER: Adjust their style of note-taking to the speaker's topic and method of organization.

6- Listening only for facts

6- Listening only for facts(Required)

MORE PRACTICE: Only want the facts. They consider everything else to be only the speaker's opinion.

GOOD LISTENER: Interested in seeing (learning) how the facts & examples support the speaker's ideas & arguments. Facts are important to support ideas.

7- Listening to only the easy material

7- Listening to only the easy material(Required)

MORE PRACTICE: Think it is too difficult to follow the speaker's complicated ideas and logic. A poor listener wants entertainment, not education.

GOOD LISTENER: Want to learn something new & understand the speaker's point. A good listener doesn’t avoid difficult or technical ideas with questions

8- Calling a subject boring

8- Calling a subject boring(Required)

MORE PRACTICE: Decide a lecture is going to be dull and "tune out" the speaker.

GOOD LISTENER: Listen closely for information that can be important and useful, even when a lecture is dull.

9- Overreacting to "push button" emotional words

9- Overreacting to "push button" emotional words(Required)

MORE PRACTICE: Gets upset at words that might trigger emotions such as, communist, income tax, Hitler or abortion. Emotions rise, listening ends.

GOOD LISTENER: When they hear these same words, they listen very carefully. They withhold judgement and try to understand the speaker's point of view.

10- Wasting thought speed

10- Wasting thought speed(Required)

MORE PRACTICE: Move along lazily with the speaker even though thinking is faster than speaking. A poor listener daydreams and falls behind.

GOOD LISTENER: Use extra time or pauses in the lecture to reflect on the speaker's message. Then reflect on what the speaker is saying.

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