Discusses about the nature and importance of listening and how it imposes great significance to learning. Detailed copy of the topic: (FOR HAND-OUTS) LISTENING  “A mental operation involving processing sound waves, interpreting their meaning, and storing their meaning in memory.”  Out of the four language skills, (Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening) LISTENING HAS BEEN SADLY NEGLECTED LANGUAGE  Basically ORAL  Students should develop their listening and speaking skills side by side with their reading and writing skills 60% - 70% of the time  An average student can listen to their teachers and classmates in school, to their parents and other members of the family at home, to announcers on the radio and television programs. IMPORTANCE OF LISTENING  Accurate and perceptive listening will minimize misunderstandings and help students to sustain satisfying and productive relationships.  Careful listening can be critical to work situations.  Listening enables listeners to provide feedback to speakers.  Effective listening abilities strengthen the other language arts: reading comprehension and written communication. NATURE OF LISTENING LISTENING  A complex skill that requires attention and energy Involves; Recognition - Selection - Short Memory - Inference Explanation: The listener recognizes the sounds and the words; he engages in a process of selection on two levels – selecting sounds and words and grouping them into meaningful units as well as selecting the information relevant to his purpose in listening. This information is stored in then stored in the short-term memory, ready to be used; the inference is about the speakers age, beliefs, feelings, etc. Is an important micro-skill in listening. LISTENING  A creative skill. We hear sounds, words, the rise and fall of voice, from all which we create significance. We listen not for the words alone but for the meanings. Rivers; significance depends on three factors:  Linguistic information which the listeners perceive aurally of sounds, words, and their arrangements in utterances  Situational context of the utterance  Intentions of the speaker Many of the students can hear but do not comprehend because it is only the linguistic content of the utterance that is given attention.

2. “A mental operation
involving processing
sound waves,
interpreting their
meaning, and storing
their meaning in
memory.”

4.  What did the lady asked to the guy
with the bike?
 What did the lady wanted to find?
 Did the guy answered back?
YES or NO
 Did the guy admitted that he did not
paid attention in school?
 What did the guy with the bike said
after the lady left?

5. Sad to say,
out of the four language skills,
LISTENING HAS BEEN
SADLY NEGLECTED

6.  Basically ORAL
 Students should develop their
listening and speaking skills
side by side with their reading
and writing skills
60% - 70%

7. HOW MUCH OF
WHAT THEY
HEAR DO THEY
UNDERSTAND?

8.  Accurate and perceptive
listening will minimize
misunderstandings and help
students to sustain satisfying
and productive relationships.
 Careful listening can be critical
to work situations.

9.  Listening enables listeners to
provide feedback to speakers.
 Effective listening abilities
strengthen the other language
arts: reading comprehension
and written communication.

10. LISTENING
- A complex skill that requires
attention and energy
Involves;
Recognition Selection
Short Memory Inference

11.  A creative skill.
 We hear sounds, words, the
rise and fall of voice, from
all which we create
significance.
 We listen not for the words
alone but for the meanings.

12.  Linguistic information which
the listeners perceive aurally
of sounds, words, and their
arrangements in utterances
 Situational context of the
utterance
 Intentions of the speaker

13. Many of our students can
hear but do not
comprehend because it is
only the linguistic content
of the utterance that is
given attention.