Types of listening skills

Listening skills focuses on understanding and identifying with a person’s situation, feelings, or motives

• Informative

• Appreciative

• Critical

• Discriminative

• Emphatic

A person from one country finds it difficult to speak another language perfectly, as he/she is unable distinguish the subtle sounds that are required in that language.

• Informative

• Appreciative

• Critical

• Discriminative

• Emphatic

When you listen to learn something, and are engaged in many day-to-day situations, in education and at work,

• Informative

• Appreciative

• Critical

• Discriminative

• Emphatic

When you listen to evaluate a message for purposes of accepting or rejecting it,

• Informative

• Appreciative

• Critical

• Discriminative

• Emphatic

Listen to focus on evaluating whether a message is logical and reasonable

• Informative

• Appreciative

• Critical

• Discriminative

• Emphatic

It is a listening skill that describes how well speakers choose and use words, use humour, ask questions, tell stories, and argue persuasively.

• Informative

• Appreciative

• Critical

• Discriminative

• Emphatic

Listening skill is less active than many of the other types of listening.

• Informative

• Appreciative

• Critical

• Discriminative

• Emphatic

Listening skill is in formal settings like in work meetings or while in education, is often accompanied by note taking – a way of recording key information so that it can be reviewed later.

• Informative

• Appreciative

• Critical

• Discriminative

• Emphatic

Listening for pleasure and enjoyment, as when we listen to music, to a comedy routine or to an entertaining speech.

• Informative

• Appreciative

• Critical

• Discriminative

• Emphatic

Listening skill that identifies "pragmatic units" -- expressions and sets of utterances which function as whole units to create meaning

• Informative

• Appreciative

• Critical

• Discriminative

• Emphatic