Listening Skill

Objectives:
 By the end of Session 1, participants will be able to:

• Define what listening is.

• Demonstrate why listening is a receptive, constructive,
collaborative and transformative process.
Energizer
Definition of Listening

What is listening?
 Definition of Listening
Activity: Listen and Draw

There is an object like a cube in the top of left hand corner.

It has a bow on top of it. There is a circle in the bottom left hand

corner. Two straight lines inside it makes a corner. In the middle on the

right hand side, there is a four-sided shape like two triangles together.
Definition of Listening
 Definition of Listening
Questions:

1. What did student B receive from student A while listening?

2. What did student B construct from listening?

3. How did student B interact with student A while listening?

4. What is the relationship between student A and student B while doing

the task?
 Definition of Listening
 Listening is………………….
• Receptive: listeners decode, receive, and ‘catch’ the transferred
idea, message, content, images, impressions, thoughts, beliefs,
attitudes and emotions.

• Constructive: listeners attempt to understand and interpret what

the speaker says by using their prior knowledge or schemata as a
frame of reference.
 Definition of Listening

• Collaborative: listeners negotiate meanings with the

speaker and respond by showing interest, nodding head,
etc.

• Transformative: the relationship between listener and

speaker may change as a result of the interaction (e.g. listener
may become more empathetic with the speaker).
 Definition of Listening

In conclusion, Listening is
the process of decoding the messages from
what you hear and then interpret/understand
the speaker says by using prior knowledge
through negotiating meaning and responding
with the speaker.
Why is listening receptive, constructive,
collaborative and transformative?
 Listening contains 4 essential key elements as follow:
• Receptive: decode or catch what you hear.

• Constructive: use your prior knowledge to infer something

• Collaborative: interaction between speaker and listener

• Transformative: relationship between speaker and listener

(How they feel)
 Group Discussion
Questions:
1. Through the activity listen and draw, which point is listening
receptive?
2. Through the activity listen and draw, which point is listening
constructive?
3. Through the activity listen and draw, which point is listening
collaborative?
4. Through the activity listen and draw, which point is listening
transformative?
 Reflection
Possible answers:
1. Receptive: When he listens to his friend …….
2. Constructive: He uses his prior knowledge to decode the
meaning…………
3. Collaborative: When he asks his friend to clarify the
meaning……..
4. Transformative: How he feels about the listening ………..
Summary
Spoken Discourse
• It lasts a very short time and there is no chance to listen again.
• Composed mainly short phrases/clauses: “ you know, you see, I
mean……”
• Words can be unclear.
• Consists of fillers “um, uh, ah, mn…..”
• Consists of informal expressions “wanna instead of want to, look
blue instead of look sad”
• Varieties of accents.