How to improve your listening skill
- 1. How to Improve Your Listening Skill Listening skill is a basic skill. Listening skill not an easy skill. It can required great concentration and attention. Firstly a person should have knowledge of what she is going to listen? For example if you go to take any lecture, you will automatically prepare about the lecture. People think listening is a passive skill, in listening the people feel relax and don’t use their organs. But listening not such a passive skill, people use their organs. For example their mind and ears are working at that time. Now we discus some point about improve listening skill. Accept that to listen is hard work Don’t take it easy to listening skill that we shall sit and we shall listen the sound and it’s not difficult work, No it is wrong thinking. Listen is hard work because we don’t listen or receive only sound but also understand these sound. We listen sound and sounds are words but often the actualmeaning hidden in expression. Words are same but conveying style is different than meaning will be automatically change. Firstly see her conveying style and what he is saying, after than combine both of them and can take a message. Ifyou are not understand his expression than often yon cannot understand realmeaning. So don’t think that listening is easy but you improve your listening skill and take pains for learn it. It’s a proper work. We cannot take it as a casual thing. You should mentally prepare and active for it, be prepare all the listen organs. Prepare to Listen and have a Positive Attitude As we discus above, you must be ready to listen and prepare yourself mentally and physically that what you are going to listen. Combine your energies for listening. Second preparation for listening is to prepare the topic and collect the related things, material and basic knowledge, also collect the data about the topic. Always have a positive attitude that if this person says this thing, it is correct. If you differ with his opinion, you will never proper to listen. You want not listen his talk with attention that he is saying wrong and lie. Then you thinking will be diverted and you will never give proper attention to him. Second is prejudiced attitude. If you have already a concept about him and you interrupt in his talking, it is also negative attitude. You realize his talking positively and critically and after his talking you can discuss you think in positive way. Keep an open mind and resist distraction Listen what he is saying and listen it carefully, may be you differ his talking. It is possible that his and your opinion may be change his and with each other but firstly you listen and open you mind for coming his talk. When his talk comes in our mind, our mind analyze his talk that is it wrong or right. If you are prejudiced in beginning, you will never give the permission to come his talk in your mind. You never understand his point of view. So concentrate on the talk and never distract your mind that a person told about different opinion and he is saying different. If you distract your mind like that, you never understand his point of view. In listening skill your organs, your mind, your psyche should control. Focus on main point and have a positive attitude. Understand and concentrate on the text You should focus on text. Words are text, even a person is talking, and his words are also text. In writing the words called text and if we speak, the words also text. Concentrate his words and sentence after it understand the words and sentence. Concentrate meaning, get the real meaning of text. Understand connotative and denotative meaning. Denotative mean general meaning,
- 2. it’s also called scientific meaning and connotative meaning mean hidden meaning. Concentrate on the text but also focus on connotative and denotative meaning. Listen not only with your ears but listen also with your eyes Ears listen verbal communication and words but our eyes observe non-verbal features of speaker, that how he gives the expression in talking. We see his body movement, hand movement and also see his gesture and posture. Not only concentrate only verbal features but also concentrate on non-verbal features, that how he is saying in non-verbal features. If you don’t understand connotative meaning it means you don’t understand posture. In listening, it is necessary that you have eye contact with your speaker. Often you don’t understand until you don’t see his lips movement. Often the voice is not clear and you understand with his lips movement. Gesture mean, signal or symbol. For example a student don’t understand speaker talk, he moves his head fastly and show that he is understanding. A student is in relax position, it means he is understanding the lecture. In short we can say that communication with verbal but also non-verbal. Hold your tongue and delay judgment Hold your tongue means that don’t interrupt in between. If you have any question, ask it after the talk or lecture. Listen the point of view and understand them. If you agree its fine and if you are not agree them you control your judgment. After the talk you can discuss your point of view that; disagree your this point. My point of view it that and your is this and discuss both point of view. In the end, a point of view will be correct. But during listening don’t talk and give your opinion after his talk.