Question

Read the lesson for this week, and complete the listening exercise in the Listen Up! section to evaluate your listening skills. Then, address the following: • State the results of the exercise. . Using the information from the exercise, describe an instance when you failed to be an effective listener. • Next, respond to the following prompts, making connections to the ideas contained in the listening chapter assigned for the week. Explain your thought process and provide examples to give explanation to your descriptions of why you feel that way. • Where in the stages of listening did you experience breakdown? • What was the reason you failed to listen effectively? Were listening barriers present? What could you have done differently to improve your listening?

Answer 1

Answer :

The stages of listening :

* receiving, understanding, remembering, evaluating and responding.

* these are the stages of good listening.

* during in the receiving or understanding time there may be a breakdown of listening may happens because of some listening problems listed below.

Reasons fail to listen effectively :

* if the persons mind is wandering,

* is there any noisy environment while communicating,

* if any interruptions from other person's.

* if there is no interest to listen,

* If any physical and mental problems,

Yes these are the barriers to listen effectively.

To improve our listening skills :

* Need to maintain eye to eye contact while communicating,

* Attention and concentration must be there.

* Open mind should be there.

* listen the word's effectively and imagine the things while communicating.

* there is no interruptions while communicating,

* clarify the all doubts when you are communicating.

* give feed back always when asked questions by speaker.

* fell free to ask doubts with speakers.