Essays on Listening

Have you ever spoken to someone new in an event or a meeting and before the conversation is over, you already forget his or her name? If the answer is yes, you are not alone. It is not because we have poor memory as human...

Active listening, a method which owes its development to Thomas Gordon, is a critical method of listening in communicating. It is a type of listening where the listener gives feedback to the speaker in context of content and emotions. In other words, active listening doesn’t...

Although they are very young, the responsibility of securing their future has been given solely to students. They receive guidance from parents and teachers but most of the work must be done by them. Therefore, to be able to fulfil their responsibility, there are a...

Listening is one of the most important aspects of communication process. It is just as important as talking and helps us understand and read the other person’s message. Throughout the years, I have learned how to become a more effective listener. I adopted different techniques...

“Build Better Listeners” The article, “Build Better Listeners” was found in the classroom management section of the National Education Association (NEA) website. The NEA opens the article by explaining that learning is one of the most important keys to student success, as it allows for...

Listening is a creative process and is more than merely hearing words.Listening requires not just hearing but thinking, as well as a good deal of interest and information which both speaker and listener must have in common.Speaking and listening entail three components: the speaker, the...

Reading is one of the most important skills which should be acquired by language learners. As Debat stated that “reading is a crucial skill for students of English as a foreign language”; therefore, it is better to be earlier introduced to the language learners. Introducing...

Reading, Comprehension and Listening Skills Blosser (1988) agrees on what B. Neuman says when announcing “a positive relationship between television watching and reading comprehension results for Hispanic students”. In addition, (Koskinnen, Wilson and Gambreel; 1987) finds a significant improvement in word recognition and oral reading...

It has been said that the success of any democracy is incumbent upon the participation of its citizenry. Indeed, our governmental, economic, and social institutions (explicit or otherwise) require the cognizant and informed participation of us all. We are the juries for our peers. We...