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Presented By:
Muhammad Husnain (8389)
Zarmeen Karimi (10202)
Syed Arif Ali Shah (7922)
Waqas Zahid (7112)
Presented To:
What is Listening?
Listening is hard!
You must choose to participate in the
process of listening.
What is listening?
Hearing = physiological
Listening = psychological
Importance of listening
Understanding
Learning
Remembering
Receiving
Recalling
Hearing
Responding Evaluating
Answering Judging
Receiving
It refers to the response caused by sound waves
stimulating the sensory receptors of the ear; it is
physical response.
Understanding
It is the stage at which you learn what the speaker
means-the thoughts and emotional tone.
Remembering
It is important listening process because it means
that an individual has not only received and
interpreted a message but has also added it to the
mind's storage bank.
But just as our attention is selective, so too is our
memory- what is remembered may be quite different
from what was originally seen or heard.
Activity:
Participatory-Passive listening
Empathic-Objective listening
Surface-Depth listening
Active-Inactive listening
Participatory-Passive listening
Active participation
Physically & mentally engage in the sharing
of meaning
Elements
Non-Verbal: Eye contact, facial expressions
Verbal: questions, back channeling cues such
as “I see” “yes” “uh-huh” etc
Participatory-Passive listening
To listen empathically
Feel with them
See the world as they see
Feel what they feel
Obvious/surface/literal meaning
Example:
ESMAIL: that creep gave me a c on the paper!! I really
worked on that project and all I get is a lousy C!
AYESHA: that’s not so bad; most people got around
the same grade. I got a C too.
FAISAL: So what? This is your last semester. Who
cares about grades anyway?
SAAD: You got a C on the paper you were working for
the last three weeks? You sound really angry and
hurt.
Purpose: