What are causes of poor listening?

What are causes of poor listening?

Factors that cause difficulty in speaking.

-Speaker
- Listener
- Content
- Support materials

i) Those relating to the speaker

- Number of speakers
-Speaker's accent
- Speaker's audibility
- Speaker's speed

ii) Those relating to the listener


- The listener's listener interest in the subject.
- His/her role as a participant or eavesdropper.
- Level of response required.

iii) Those related to the content

- Level of vocabulary
- The complexity of the grammar involved.
- Background knowledge of listener.

iv) Support materials

The use of usual aids such as pictures, diagram to his support his claims by the speaker enhances
the listener's attention

Other factors

v) a) Physical/psychological disposition of the listener

-The listener's health status
- Whether his/her hearing organs are normal
- Whether his/she's tired, bored or hungry.
-His/her attitude towards the speaker. Is he/she positive or negative.\his/her attitude
towards the subject?

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marto answered the question on May 21, 2019 at 06:00

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