Elton Henriques Simango

Fernando David Dzimba

Fátima Chicotela

Flávio juscelino

Listening skills
Licenciatura em ensino de Inglês

Universidade Pedagógica

Maputo

2022
Elton Henriques simango

Fernando David Dzimba

Fatima Chicotela

Flávio juscelino

Listening Skills

Faculdade de ciências de Linguagem, comunicação

e Artes,

Licenciatura em ensino de inglês, 1º ano.

Docente: Dulce Fenhane

Universidade Pedagógica

Maputo

2022
Indice
Introduction

In this present job we talk about a variety of listening skills’ areas, so that we can have a
wider understanding in terms of what actually is to listen.

Objectives of this job:

General Objective:

 Develop listening skills

Specific objectives:

 Differ hearing from listening;

 Give some tips on how to teach and improve our understanding through listening;

 Identify the ways of improving listening skills.

Listening and Hearing

Hearing is an accidental and automatic brain response to sound that requires no effort.
We are surrounded by sounds most of the time. For example, we hear accustomed to the
sounds of cars, constructions and so on, we hear those sounds and, we generally learn to
ignore those sounds.

Listening is purposeful and focused rather than accidental. As a result it requires

motivation and effort, listening is active, focused, concentrated and attention for the
purpose of understanding the meaning expressed by a speaker.

Johnson defines listening as “ the ability to understand and respond effectively to oral
communication”

Davis brings a very clear definition of both issues saying that “hearing is with the ears,
but listening is with the mind”

There is a major difference between just hearing and listening.

Most of us have a potential to hear. Scientifically is a proses of receiving waves through

our ears. Which are transmitted to the hearing mechanism.(Orr fred 1993 studing skills
for successful student )

The sound vibrations are converted to impulses which are sent to the brain, for
interpretation.

It’s only in the last stage that listen and hear differ.
Difference between listening and hearing

Listening vs. hearing

Hearing is a passive process.

Listening involves considerable brain activities. That’s what makes it complex and quiet
dedicated process.

We often hear without listening, it happens when we receive sound waves through our
ear waves which transmit them through the hearing mechanism, but the main
differences are:

Hearing is only a biologic process, so if we don’t remember something that we have

been told we were probably hearing, not listening.

According to john listening is the ability to understand and respond effectively to oral
communication, so listening requires more than hearing, it requires understanding the
communication received.
Listening activities

Listening in real life.

There are two ways in which we often listen; casual and focused listening.

Casual listening

Is when we listen with no particular purpose in mind, and often without much
concentration.

Examples of this kind of listening are: listen to the radio while doing some house work.

Focused listening.

At other time we listen for a particular purpose, to find out information we need to
know.

Is when we listen with closely and paying attention in order to hear the message or
information

Examples of this kind of listening are:

Listen to a piece of important news on radio.

Listen to someone explaining how to upper a particular machine.

In these examples we do listen carefully but we have some more examples such as:
listen to the instruction, teacher explanation, direction etc…

In classes we are usually concerned with the second kind of listening, we expect the
listener to listen closely and remember afterward what they heard. But if we just ask the
class to listen we are giving them a very difficult task. We can make it by telling them
before hearing what to expect and what to listen to.
How to improve listening skills and be a better listener

If we want to be a better listener is important to give the speaker an undivided attention,

and show some interest in what the speaker says.

 Put aside distracting thoughts;

 Pay attention to what is being said;

 Visualize/ imagine what the speaker is saying;

 Don’t interrupt the speaker.

Interrupting the speaker while speaking sends a variety of messages:

 I’m more important than you are;

 What I have to say is more interesting;

 I don’t care about what you think;

 I don’t have time for your opinion.

 Listening activities

There are 3 stages of listening:

 Pre-listening;
 While listening;
 Past listening.

Sometimes we call these: before listening, during listening and after listening.

Pre listening

Are the activities done before listening activities. It is a process of preparing learners for the
listening.
We can do this by writing some questions before about the topic.

While listening

Is what we do at the same time as we are listening, is to do an activity while we are

listening.

We can do this by:

Ticking boxes as we listen to a recording or finding answers to the questions.

This will help them to focus on listening.

After listening

Is what is done after listening activities, it is sometimes called follow up. we can do this
by:

Checking understanding. In these we expect the listener to check what they understood.
Active and passive listening

Hearing is passive, listening is active.

Active listening is to fully concentrate, understand, respond and then remember what is being
said, you make a conscious effort to hear and understand the complete message being spoken,
rather than just passively hearing the message of the speaker.

In passive listening the listener is just listening to the words, not to the message, what often
leads to a misunderstanding.

Guide to effective listening

There are some practical suggestions for effective listening or to have a good understanding of
what you are being told, if followed, can appreciably increase the effectiveness

Barriers to effective listening

There are several barriers to effective listening, according to Tortoriello, which are:

 Thinking that your ideas are not worth, or to think that your thoughts might be
changed in some way, so any change is threatening initially;
 Listen to only those things that are relevant to our own goals and objectives;
 Listen to only those things that serve to satisfy our own needs.
 Not to listen to things that don´t comfort to our own world.
Teaching listening in classes.

listen to classes.

We have to ways of doing this.

1. By giving a simple listening task.

2. By giving guide questions

Giving a simple listening task’

 The teacher can talk about himself.

By giving guide questions.

Hear the teacher will read a task on which someone remember things ….

Explain that they should listen and try to find the answers to the question

The questions are:

The table and questions save the same purpose, it focus the students attention by giving
them something specific to listen for, it gives the listeners a reason to listen and helps
the listen by leading them through the main points.

Taking notes from the lectures involve listening and writing. The use of listen skills
leads naturally to the writing
Active Listening

The process of active listening in a lecture should actually start before the lecture, I
mean prior to the lecture or the classes we have to warm up our minds for active
listening. We might even say that to have an active listening is the same with warming
up the body muscles before strenuous exercises, so our mind is not different, it
functions better if it is warmed up for the tasks.

But how can we do it? How can we warm up our minds to have an active listening?

The very first thing we have to do is to consult our course syllabus week´s lectures. And
if we don´t have those syllabus we have to ask the teaching staff for them, and after
having it we should go to the libraries to look for the contents on the week program, so
that the words we will hear do not sound strange for us.

And here are a couple of practical points on active listening skills in classroom:

 Prior to your classes, browse through the relevant chapter of your next classes
texts to familiarize yourself with the topics, ideas, and key terms.
 Sit where you can concentrate on the lecture and not be distracted.
 Concentrate on getting major ideas from the lecture.

Limit Your Own talking

You cannot be an effective listener if you are too busy talking. Frank Tyget puts it in
this way, ``You can only improve on saying nothing by saying nothing often.``

Following receipt of each oral communication, there is time for response. As the
receiver of the message, don´t monopolize the conversation. Give the communicator an
opportunity to respond to your comments. As the source of the message he should be
given a chance to have the last word. If you give him that opportunity, he will feel
important and believe he has communicated effectively.
Importance of Listening

``When you speak you are just repeating what you already know, but when you listen
you might learn something new.``

Listening is the most important fundamental component of communication skills.

1. Listening reduces misunderstanding

Misunderstanding is one of the most common effects of poor communication. When

people are not listening to each other, it´s very easy to mishear something or
misinterpret someone´s meaning. Many times, misunderstandings are not a big deal, but
someone can have major consequences.

2. Listening increases your productivity

People who are good listeners are more likely to retain information, understanding what
´s being required of them, and ask the right questions. This is a valuable skill in group
projects and meetings, many people think they need to talk a lot to contribute, but
arguably more important, if everyone.

Conclusion
Taking notes at lectures/ from a short talk

Taking notes is the practice of recording information, from different sources and
plataforms, but here we focus on taking notes while listening.
References

Referencias bibliograficas

Orr Fred. Study skills for successful student( listening skills) 1992 austria