Ter Scott Shares Another Article About Listening Perception:

Here is another well written article by one of my students, Shane Linge, writing about resources to find good information about Listening Perception:
According to an article posted at http://www.infoplease.com/homework/listeningskills1.html, there are three basic steps to good listening. These three steps include hearing, understanding, and judging. The article goes further to explain that hearing what is being said, and being able to repeat it, is considered hearing. After we listen to what was said, we follow up by interpreting what we heard into meaning, or understanding. After that we judge the information we have received and decide for ourselves whether or not we agree. The article lists a few other tips following the basics, I recommend visiting their site to get some good ideas.

There is another article about listening skills that can be found at http://www.mindtools.com/CommSkll/ActiveListening.htm. This article offers some pointers on how you can become an active listener. The five specific tips they provide are; pay attention, show that you are listening, defer judgment, provide feedback, and to respond appropriately. This article offers some really good information on this subject, and even provides a link for a “tool-kit” to use at your disposal.

I found an article at http://www.d.umn.edu/kmc/student/loon/acad/strat/ss_listening.html that offers some listening advice to students in particular. It offers some basic information to help students to get more from their lectures by practicing some good listening skills. Some of the skills they cover include keeping eye contact with your instructor, avoiding distractions, and asking yourself mental questions throughout the lecture. I found some good information in this article, and recommend visiting this site for some more information.

Why is listening perceived to be important in so many professions? Simply put, if you don’t get every amount of information you can from what is being presented to you, you will lack in your job performance as a result.

Which specific listening skills seem to be agreed upon as being most important? I would have to say that from the articles that I chose to read after searching the topic, which the most important skills each article mentions would include hearing, understanding what was received, and making a decision from the information.

Shane Linge

Works Cited:

http://www.d.umn.edu/kmc/student/loon/acad/strat/ss_listening.html

http://www.infoplease.com/homework/listeningskills1.html

http://www.mindtools.com/CommSkll/ActiveListening.htm