Spoken English-3 CLEP-2 Day-3 Reading/Test Material - Active Listening for Better Spoken Skills

Spoken English-3 CLEP-2 Day-3 Reading/Test Material - Active Listening for Better Spoken Skills . Active Listening for Better Spoken Skills . Active Listening for Better Spoken Skills. Listening is one of the most important skills you can have. How well you listen has a major impact on your job effectiveness, and on the quality of your relationships with others.
DAY 3 CLEP 2 SPOKEN ENGLISH FOR TEACHERS SERIES BY SCERT, AP On "Active Listening for Better Spoken Skills" by Dr. Shoba K.N., Assit. Prof. of English, Anna University, Chennai.

Spoken English-3 CLEP-2 Day-3 Active Listening for Better Spoken Skills 

For instance:

• We listen to obtain information. We listen to understand.
• We listen for enjoyment. We listen to learn.

Given all the listening that we do, you would think we'd be good at it! In fact, most of us are not, and research suggests that we only remember between 25 percent and 50 percent of what we hear, as described by Edgar Dale's Cone of Experience. That means that when you talk to your boss, colleagues, customers, or spouse for 10 minutes, they pay attention to less than half of the conversation.
Turn it around and it reveals that when you are receiving directions or being presented with information, you aren't hearing the whole message either. You hope the important parts are captured in your 25-50 percent, but what if they're not? 

Clearly, listening is a skill that we can all benefit from improving. By becoming a better listener, you can improve your productivity, as well as your ability to influence, persuade and negotiate. What's more, you'll avoid conflict and misunderstandings.

“Whereas speakers can, at their own pace, use... communication strategies to maintain communication, listeners must adjust to the speaker's tempo and active vocabulary" -- Vandergrift 1999

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