The Importance Of Good And Active Listening

A student maybe inattentive or not participating in group, due to reasons such as passive listening or the way subject is being taught or explained cannot hold his attention or he has already pre-learned these content ahead and spaces out instead or he does not understand what is being taught at all.

The best way to model Good or Active Listening is to be a Good Listener ourselves. According to a research done in America, statistics show that Adults are 75 percent of the time not efficiently listening due to reasons being they are already preoccupied, distracted and forgetful. Another research also suggests that we adults expect more from students than we can expect from ourselves as well.

So first, a way to identify the underlying issue will be to talk to the child rather than to force it on him. That way, the issue can be isolated out and made easier to work on.

Active listening is not just defined as looking at the teacher all eyes and ears, mouth closed. Active listening comprises of sending, encoding, decoding, receiving and feedback. Sending is the instruction being said clearly and precisely with content and reason in layman term for a useful purpose to be understood easily by all students. Encoding is the transfer of information eliminating sources of conflicts and sent in a form where it can be decoded by the receiver. Decoding is a skill where the receiver takes to listen or read carefully. However, if the decoder lacks knowledge to understand the message, it creates confusion. Receiving is when the receiver gets the message delivered and processes it with ideas and feelings which affect the understanding and response to the message. Feedback is when the receiver show non-verbal and verbal response to the message. The...

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Students are motivated to listen more when they know that they will doing an exciting task afterwards based on what they have been taught.

Teaching can occur without the teacher having to vomit all the information herself, thus over-loading the students working memory. It is best that when the teacher is explaining a topic in the class she asks them a question every 10 to 15 minutes. This allows students to think and when they get to move about, physical movement enhances the brain activity.

A student’s listening ability is capacity is influenced physiologically, such as auditory acuity (the ability to hear) and auditory perception (the ability to differentiate among sounds, blend sounds together and hold sound sequences in memory). Other factors can be attention disorders, emotional disturbances, prenatal drug exposure and language proficiency.