How can one improve his/her listening abilities?

Ways of improving listening ability

i) Recognizing that listening is complex and difficult task.

- This means that the listener should appreciate the fact that listening is complex and that there are many elements that make oral communication which involves verbal and nonverbal cues. All these help speaker to convey meaning.
- Realize that purposeful listening requires ability visualize situations being described by the speaker.
- Develop awareness of the importance of tonal variation in a speaker indicate difference in seriousness if issues articulated by the speaker.
- Recognize that both the speaker and the listener are the part and parcel of the
communication process. As earlier stated the listener should motivate the listener through nodding his head in agreement with what is said.

ii) Developing simple communication and organizational skills

- Use complete sentences and distinguish between sensible and non-sensible ones.
- Use paragraphs and identify the major points.
- Learn formula for quick evaluation namely.
- Isolate the basic essentials. Find the topic sentence.
- Discard irrelevant ones.
- Determine whether the purpose is mainly to inform or to persuade.
- Determine whether the assertions are mainly factual speculative

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marto answered the question on May 21, 2019 at 06:02