ANALYTICAL LISTENING

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 What is listening?
• Listening is the active process of receiving and responding to
spoken or sometimes unspoken messages.

• Remember that listening is more than just “hearing”.

• Listening is an active process by which we make sense of,

assess, and respond.
5 STAGES OF LISTENING
• Receiving
• Understanding
• Evaluating
• Remembering
• Responding
4 TYPES OF LISTENING
• Appreciative Listening
• Emphatic Listening
• Comprehensive/ Active
Listening
• Analytical Listening
01
APPRECIATIVE
LISTENING
• Listening for pleasure and enyoyment.
• Describes how well speaker choose and
use words, use humor, ask questions, tell
stories, and argue persuasively.
02
EMPHATIC
LISTENING
• Listening to provide emotional support for
the speaker.
• Focuses on understanding and identifying
a person’s situation, feelings, or motives.
03 COMPREHENSIVE/
ACTIVE LISTENING
• Listening to understand the message of a speaker.
• Focuses on accurately understanding the meaning of the
speaker’s words while simultaneously interpreting non-
verbal cues such as facial expressions, gestures, posture, and
vocal quality.
04 ANALYTICAL/
CRITICAL LISTENING
• Listening to evaluate a message for purposes of accepting or rejecting it.
• Focuses on evaluating whether a message is logicaland reasonable.
• Asks you to make judgement based on your evaluation of the speaker’s
arguments.
• Challenges the speaker’s message by evaluatingits accuracy and
meaningfulness.