The document outlines the five stages of listening:
1) Receiving involves physically hearing sound waves and focusing on the speaker's message without distractions.
2) Understanding means comprehending the speaker's intended meaning and thoughts behind the message.
3) Remembering adds the message to long-term memory so the listener can recall what was said.
4) Evaluating is judging the value of the message and how it is influenced by the listener's own perspectives.
5) Feedback is responding to indicate involvement, such as asking questions or continuing a discussion, to provide input to the speaker.
4. RECEIVING
• It refers to the response cause by sound waves stimulating the sensory receptors
of the ear; it is physical response.
• Receiving is the intentional focus on hearing a speaker’s message, which
happens when we filter out other sources so that we can isolate the message and
avoid the confusing mixture of incoming stimuli. At this stage, we are still only
hearing the message.
5. UNDERSTANDING
• It is the stage at which you learn what the speaker means- the thoughts and
emotional tone.
• In the understanding stage, we attempt to learn the meaning of the message,
which is not always easy. For one thing, if a speaker does not enunciate clearly, it
may be difficult to tell what the message was.
6. REMEMBERING
• Remembering is important to process of listening because it means that an
individual has not only received and interpreted a message but has also added it
to the mind’s storage.
• Remembering begins with listening; if you can’t remember something that was
said, you might not have been listening effectively.
7. EVALUATING
• The fourth stage in the listening process is evaluating, or judging the value of the
message. We might be thinking, “This makes sense” or, conversely, “This is very
odd.” Because everyone embodies biases and perspectives learned from widely
diverse sets of life experiences, evaluations of the same message can vary widely
from one listener to another. Even the most open-minded listeners will have
opinions of a speaker, and those opinions will influence how the message is
evaluated.
8. FEEDBACK
• Sometimes called RESPONDING
• It is the fifth and final stage of the listening process. It’s the stage at which you
indicate your involvement. Almost anything you do at this stage can be interpreted
as feedback. For example, you are giving positive feedback to your instructor if at
the end of class you stay behind to finish a sentence in your notes or approach
the instructor to ask for clarification.
9. ACTIVITY
Find a partner and share to each other what did you do the moment you wake up
this morning until you go to the school. After that get a sheet of paper and write
down all the information you understand without asking your partner again.