Listening Skills: Meaning, Conditions, and Objectives
Listening Skills: The listening skill is the counterpart of speech without listening the speech has no meaning. These skills function 'simultaneously and have the same purpose is, to is, to facilitate understanding among the persons.
Meaning of Listening Skill
This skill is related to audio sense and speech is the function of lingual sense. The listening is passive when some one is speaking then listening occurs. The speech generates sounds which eaches to the audio-sense. The sound makes sense or meaning by mental organization. If he is attentive to the sound which is understandable to him Listening means that audio-sense make sense to the sound which, is created by the speech.
Conditions for Listening Skills
The listening skill has the specific meaning and conditions. All the sounds do not facilitate the listening. Some sounds have no sense or meaning to them. A person is not attentive to the sound which reaches to his audio sense. It will not be the listening.
The listening skills requires the following conditions for its occurrence
1. The person is able to understand meaning of words conveyed through sounds.
2. The person should have favourable attitude to the speech or sound by speaking.
3. The audio-sense of the person should be normal.
4. The sound created by the speech must have some sense or ineaning. The sound should be supported by the actions.
5. The person is attentive to the sound which reaches to his audio- sense.
6. The mental set of the person is ready to organize the sense of the sound or to understand the message.
The Objectives Listening Skills
The listening skills have the following objectives:
1. Listening skill is the basis of good learning of the language.
2. It makes speaking skills effective and workable.
3. The educational process is based on speaking and listening process.
4. The listening and speaking are basis of learning English language.
5. The main objectives of listening is to develop the understanding of concept, fats, ideas and feelings....
6. It senses the purpose of communicating the message, content, knowledge, ideas and feelings.
7. It facilitates the verbal interaction among the persons and the group 8. In teaching-learning situation the students are the passive listeners
The language is a media of communication. The communication is done with the help of skills-reading, writing, speaking and listening. There are two sets of skills channels which are used in communication.
(1) Reading-Writing channel and
(2) Speaking-Listening channel.
(1) Reading-Writing Channel:
The written matter is read by the students A person expresses his ideas, feeling and knowledge in writing form to communicate to others. The matter is read by the others to comprehend the message, this approach is none as cognitive approach of learning language. The reading and writing skills operate at cognitive level which are not perceivable
(2) Speaking-Listening Channel:
A person communicates his feeling and Ideas orally to 'others. While other listen to him to understand the message communicated by him, Under this approach audio and lingual sentences are operate in this approach. Therefore it is none as audio-lingual approach to language learning.
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