Uzbekistan State University of World Languages
The 2nd year student Ibragimova Surayyo
Supervisor: Mamatqulova Nilufar
To Identify the Wrong and Effective Ways of Improving Listening Skills in English The best way to understand people is to listen to them. Ralph G. Nichols
“Listening is a skill, not a gift”, said a number of books’ author Simone Braverman. For recent years, as this statement is truly proven, foreign language learners try to develop their listening skills by practicing in consequence of its cruciality for fully understanding the language. According to Cameron (2001) , listening is the receptive use of language, and since goal is to make sense of the speech, the focus is on meaning rather language. Moreover, Saricoban (1999) states that listening is the ability to identify and understand what others are saying. For learners, listening is how spoken language becomes
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One of them is called interactive listening. To put it another way, it is better to talk with someone (especially with native speakers) than just to listen to a recorder TV or radio program, or podcast. It will be very helpful for you and you will develop your skill as an independent learner.
Also, there are another major methods for improving your English listening skills. For example, if you enjoy reading, you may choose audio types of your favorite books. If you enjoy listening to MP3, music is another excellent way to listen in English and it is fun as well. If you do this regularly, you will build a repertoire of songs that you know and understand. You will listen to them again and again and burn the vocabulary into your
Unit 6: Written Assignment Interpersonal Skills Listening, “The act of mindfully hearing and attempting to comprehend the meaning of words spoken by another in a conversation or speech. Activity listening is an important business communication skill, and it can involve making sounds that indicate attentiveness, as well as the listener giving feedback in the form of a paraphrased rendition of what has been said by the other party for their confirmation.” (businessdictionary.com). An example of how it is useful is developing trust. Trust is a building block for every meaningful relationship.
The essay “Learning to Listen.” by Peggy Ramin, goes into depth about the true meaning of listening. Peggy, explains to the reader that growing up she was not raised to listen. She states, “And when I say “listening,” I am not referring to the nodding-your-head-and-politely-murmuring-Uh-huh-or-Ooh-I-see variety.” (Ramin,1).
Making sense of the spoken word is a task that we accomplish every day, more times without any thoughts or efforts. Nevertheless, we go about our daily activity talking to the people around us with the assumption that they will comprehend what we are saying and in return, we will reciprocate and understand their spoken words. But what if we were dropped in a world where we did not know the language and we must learn to communicate or die; so it is with babies, every day new babies are born not knowing the language spoken around them.
According to Carlina Rinaldi (2006), to listen is to be open to others and to what they have to say, is to consider others as subjects that contribute to shared research that each person develops about the meaning of everyday experiences. Listening requires an in-depth understanding of events, situations, ideas, and is free of judgment and prejudices. Listening is a reciprocal process that involves the listener and the one that communicates, recognizes the right to participation of children, teachers and parents, legitimizing their theories and interpretations of the surrounding world (Lino,
“Listening” a. The author is informing the reader the importance of listing an interpersonal communication skill. The Author DeVito states the main purpose in the first paragraph “Listening is surly one of the most important of all interpersonal communication skills”. Throughout the article he explains the importance of reading and gives examples and facts about listening. b.
I chose the exercise of silence the 3 mins a day in a quiet atmosphere. I have tried and it can work. If individuals using this exercise as much as they can. Will develop listening skills, because they can think better enough to understand how to listen. Unfortunately, When I was working as head of receiving in a company.
There are many different forms of communication these include visual, verbal and non-verbal. It is important that people take a look at their own communication skills and how these can be improved. Communication allows us to see things from another point of view; therefore one can get rid of any personal biases. Listening is a gift that should be appreciated, it lets people know what is going on around them in their society, such as people’s problems and struggles. It is not until people start to listen to someone that they will be able to understand that person.
Listening is a cognitive function that involves the actors to take into consideration , react and respond to what the other members of the ensemble have to contribute. Hearing on the other hand is merely an autonomic sensory response to sounds. In a conversation it simply informs one that another is talking, while listening allows one to understand what the other is saying. Listening allows for the creative process to flourish with the continual expression and utilization of ideas. If listening is added correctly the ensemble will work stronger as a unit because everyone felt that they were able to contribute even if not all of their ideas were used in the piece.
Some things to remember when practicing good listening skills, are no one can listen when two people are talking, and a good listener listens to understand and not to respond. Working on communication skills can help form effective
In other words, listening involves more than what you “hear” with your ears: it involves what you see; it involves the responses of all of your senses—touch, feel, sight, sound, smell; and, very importantly, it involves what you perceive intuitively and emotionally and what you have experienced and perceived in the past. The meaning of dialogue is enhanced by all the other things you “hear.” You hear the sound of someone speaking; you hear the literal meaning
LISTENING: is a skills and ability to hear spoken words and sound in an environment or ability to receive information correctly and deliver messages, responses in a conversation, this could be face to face, video and audio recording, by phone and through any audible communication technology. Communication can only be effective when active listening is applied, without active listening communication can be horrible, misunderstood and interpreted in a most frustrating way. It is when you receive the information accurately, then you can be able to deliver the right response. Listening is very essential in terms of maintaining customer service, communication of safety, sharing vital information and classified information, elimination of mistakes
Listening breaks down the barriers between individuals by paving the way for mutual understanding and cooperation. Good listening prevents communication gap and facilitates a fair grasp of the objectives and priorities of individuals and institutions. Attentive listening prevents the need for repetitions and thus save precious time. Normally, people listen to improve their knowledge, to obtain information, to follow directions, to be able to solve problems, to share experiences and feelings of joy and sorrow, to express opinions, to give judgments, and finally to learn new
It enhances listening and speaking also it increases new vocabulary for student. The aim of this essay is to give real imagine about how the Aural-Oral approach can be taught in or during English learning and give good improvement in both listening and speaking in order to reach student’s communicative competence. The first focus of Aural-Oral Approach is to teach English for student
Problem solving is one of the important skills that person should have. If any person have this skill that will help them in the all life and specially in the work and in the business. Whenever an individual can apply problem solving skills, as experience accumulates over time, it becomes easier reduces failure rates and achieves success. When we talk, we like to listen to others maybe this is a general nature in us all because listening makes us feel confident and respectful and feel important. active listening is a way of listening and responding to another person that improves mutual understanding.
A good listener should focus on what is being said and should listen not just for the words but also