Active Listening

     From the lecture of week 6, I have learned a lot of things. Most of us will only give important to speaking and never know the important of listening. So that, the process of speaking becomes more than the process of listening. But, through this chapter I learned that listening is one of the important things in communication. It is important to listen as well as speaking as a communication tool. Listening is the active process of receiving, constructing meaning from, and I also get to understand the differences between hearing and listening.

     Listening is actually occurring by following certain process such as stimulus, attention, working memory, short term memory, and long term memory. I learned that listening is the main source for all other communication tool such as speaking. We actually listen more than reading, speaking, and writing in our daily which we don’t realize. There are several types of listening, such as active listening, emphatic listening, critical listening and listening for enjoyment.

     Other than that, I also get to know about the causes that can distract the listening. The causes are like noise, perception of others, and yourself. Even gender difference also can cause different of listening in people. There are also several ways to improve our listening process.

By Subhatra