4. Listening

Question 1

Stages in Listening

Answer 1

People can choose what to listen to. It is important to motivate the listeners to select your message.

What helps an audience listen to a message?
- Activity and Movement (to listen to an action-packed message)
-Concrete words and images (that the audience can visualize)
-Issues and Events close to an audience (focus on the problems in the audience s own community)
-Familiar ideas and events
- + New, different or novel ideas and events
-Stories that create suspense
-Conflict
-Humor

Question 2

Barriers to Effective Listening

Answer 2

Information Overload
Personal Concerns
Outside Distractions
PREJUDICE

Question 3

Improving Your Note-Taking Skills

Answer 3

1. Prepare
2. Determine whether you need to take notes
3. Make a decision about the type of notes you need to take
4. Make your notes meaningful.

Question 4

Listening and Critical Thinking

Answer 4

The ability to separate facts from inferences is one of the most basic critical thinking and listening skills.
Inference = conclusion based on partial information.