LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:5 May 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
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Develop Effective Listening Skill

Manimozhi Sayeekumar, M.A., M.Phil.

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Learning any language is an art, which involves four major skills called Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. It is popularly known as LSRW skills – Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. This paper aims at presenting some details regarding what is listening, what is hearing, what is the difference between these two, various types of listening , how listening enhances the overall communication, what are the methods adopted for developing listening skill, factors involved in effective listening, attitudes to develop to achieve better listening, responsibilities shared by the speakers and listeners, etc. This paper focuses on these points and discusses the relationship between speakers and listeners.

What is Listening?

Listening is generally defined as a conscious, cognitive effort involving primarily the sense of hearing and leading to interpretation and understanding. We listen with our senses to understand the communication being uttered. Our goal is to understand what is being uttered. We want to understand the words and sentences and through this understanding retrieve the intent the speaker had while he or she communicated. In other words, we try to identify speaker’s views and analyze his or her views to work out a coherent picture of the communication we face. It is a difficult process, in which what is heard is weighed, analyzed, sorted, related, classified, evaluated as well as judged.

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Manimozhi Sayeekumar, M.A., M.Phil.
Head of the Department of English
Bharath University
173 Adaram Road
Chennai 600 073
Tamilnadu
India
manisayee2006@yahoo.co.in
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