“Listening as a skill”

Name: JitendraV. sumra Sem:M.A.Part-1 Year:2011-12 Roll No-17 Department Of English

Introdution about Listening

Listening is one of the four language skill: reading , writing , listening and speaking.

Like reading , listening is a respective skill. Listening involves making sense of the meaningful

sounds of language.

Concepts of Listing

Listing involves understanding spoken language.

Understand spoken language we need to be able to deal with all the characteristics of spoken language.

When we listing…..

We need to be able to understand different kinds such as…

Conversations, Stories, Songs, Instructors, Lectures , etc….

We also need to understand different speeds of speech

example .. [1] some people speak more slowly and with more pauses.

[2] Others speak fast and or with few pauses .This makes them more difficult to understand.

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But we do not listen to every thing in the same way.

How we listen depends on our reason for listening.

We might listen for gist specific information , details , attitude or do extensive listening.