LISTENING TO THE SPEECH

Lecturer: Drs. Fitriadi Lubis, M.Pd.

Subject: Listening for Academic Test

Created by:
Group 6

1. Marisa Tamara Simatupang (2020300019)

2. Yuli arianggi Harahap (2020300059)
3. Sumita Sihombing (2020300045)
4. Suci Almaidah (2020300023)

ENGLISH STUDY
FACULTY of TARBIAH and TEACHER TRAINING
STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY of SYEIKH ALI HASAN AHMAD ADDARY PADANGSIDEMPUAN
2022/2023
 Preface

Thank God we prayed to the presence of Allah SWT. who gave Mercy and his grace to us to be able to
complete the preparation of papers entitled ‘Listening to the speech’ just in time. This paper is structured
to fulfill one of the tasks of the language course English about Listening. As the proverb says "there is no
ivory that does not crack", in this case, we realize that in our preparation is still a lot of shortcomings,
both content, sitematics, discussion and use of language that is still much influenced by our subjective
experience. Therefore, we expect constructive criticism and suggestions from readers all for the sake of
improvement of this work. Finally, we hope, hopefully this paper can be useful.

3 October 2022

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 Table of Contents
Preface................................................................................................................................................1
Table of content..................................................................................................................................2
A. DEFENITION OF LISTENING.....................................................................................................3
1. Rost 1994.........................................................................................................................3
2. Donald and Haggastron....................................................................................................3
3. Underwood 1989.............................................................................................................3
4. Tarigan.............................................................................................................................3

B. HOW TO LISTEN TO A SPEECH................................................................................................4

1. listen for the frame...........................................................................................................4
2. listen for the emotion.......................................................................................................4
3. listen for the false note.....................................................................................................4
4. listen for the stories..........................................................................................................4
5. listen for the ask...............................................................................................................4
6. listen like a child..............................................................................................................4

Conclusion...........................................................................................................................................5
Reference............................................................................................................................................6

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A. DEFENITION OF LISTENING

Listening is our understanding of listening to English. either directly or through media such as
speech, music or films. Listening is an important material in English because we must be able to
know what people are saying to us. Listening involves receiving sound, understanding the message
conveyed in the sounds you hear, evaluating the message, and responding to it. 

1. Rost 1994
According to Rost 1994: 2 listening is a process that is triggered by one's attention. In terms of
psychology attention is a nerve tract stimulation, the brain, to regulate incoming stimuli in an efficient
way.

2. Donald and Haggastron

According to Donaldson and Haggastron 2006: 68 state that listening is a process of receiving,
attending to, and giving meaning to verbal stimuli. These three sub-processes are fundamental to
listening in many languages.

3. Underwood 1989
According to Underwood 1989:1 states that listening is an activity of paying attention and trying to
get the meaning of what someone is listening to. He explained that to listen successfully to spoken
language, a listener needs to be able to work out what speakers mean when they use certain words in
certain ways, and it is not easy to understand the words themselves. To understand spoken language
messages, it is not enough just to understand the words themselves, but the incoming sound needs to
be processed involving available cues such as background noise, speakers, and settings to form
meaning.

4. Tarigan
According to Tarigan (2008:31) reveals that listening is a process of listening to verbal symbols with
full attention, understanding, appreciation, and interpretation to obtain information, capture content or
messages, and understand the meaning of communication that has been conveyed by the speaker
through speech.

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B. HOW TO LISTEN TO A SPEECH

Audience is one of the three essential elements of a public speech – without an audience, it’s not a
speech any more than it’s a speech without a speaker or content.  And yet that third element, the
audience, can get lost in all the rest of our efforts to create a successful occasion, strange as that may
sound. 

1. listen for the frame

 The most important moments of a speech are the opening ones.  That’s the time when the speaker
should tell us what the speech is about – preferably something interesting, and preferably in an
interesting way.  So listen for the frame at the beginning of a speech, because that will guide the
entire rest of the occasion.

2. listen for the emotion

  Ask yourself, what emotion (besides  a little natural stage fright at the beginning) is the speaker
trying to convey?  Most speakers find their emotions attenuated by the difficulty of emoting on
command in front of hundreds of people, so you may have to interpret for the speaker, or even make
an educated guess.  But knowing the emotions at play in the speech will give you a road map for the
important landmarks in the journey the speaker is trying to take you on.

3. listen for the false notes 

 Of course, I’d much prefer for the speaker to succeed beautifully, but it’s also the job of the audience
to decide whether or not the speaker is credible, and whether or not to trust the speaker.   Sometimes
that involves deciding that the speaker is not succeeding.  You need to kick the rhetorical tires, and
decide for yourself whether the speaker is what he or she claims to be.

4. listen for the stories

  Good stories are at the heart of a great speech, and so the audience has a right to expect those stories
at regular intervals, and for the stories to carry much of the emotional freight of the speech.  Those
stories should reveal personal involvement in the topic and should tell us things that we can’t learn
any other way.  Beware the speaker who tells stories that are clichés, that you’ve heard many times
before.  Because that usually means that he or she is letting someone else do the thinking.

5. listen for the ask

  At the heart of every great speech is a request, from the speaker to the audience.   Even if it’s only a
minimal “believe with me that this is important,” there’s always a reason why the speaker is doing all
that work.  Listen for that because to understand the ask is to understand the speech and the speaker.

6. listen like a child

 Children have the opposite listening ability to grownups – kids listen to the whole experience.  They
have a hard time focusing.  As a result, they notice a good deal more than most adults, some of it
irrelevant, but some of it not.  Spending some time listening like a child is a great way to open up
your listening, refresh it, and avoid missing out on something essential.

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 CONCLUSION

Listening is hard work, and most people find themselves half-listening at best, because what’s
going on around them competes with their inner voices, and all the other distractions of the daily to
do list.  A little thought about what to listen for can help you get the most possible out of a speech –
which will make the speech successful, too. Listening effectively to a speech is a challenging art, the
more so today because of the constant demands on our time that mean that it’s hard to leave our smart
phones alone for any length of time. 

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 REFERENCE

https://text-id.123dok.com/document/7q0ewor9y-pengertian-listening-listening-dalam-mata-pelajaran-
bahasa-inggris-di-sekolah-menengah.html.

https://publicwords.com/2017/05/04/how-to-listen-to-a-speech-2/