Lesson 1 - Informational Listening

It is a significant skill you should have. How well you listen has a major influence on study effectiveness, and on the quality of your relationships with others

• Reading

• Listening

• Speaking

A skill that we can all benefit from improving. By becoming a better listener, you can develop your efficiency, as well as your ability to influence, convince and negotiate.

• Reading

• Listening

• Speaking

He identifies the different effective informational listening approaches.

• Tay

• Gonzales

• Bautista

He defined informational listening as listening with the goal of learning, understanding, and grasping information

• Tay

• Gonzales

• Bautista

According to him, listening is considered a passive form of listening because the listener is not judging, criticizing, or evaluating the message but is simply listening to understand it.

• Tay

• Gonzales

• Bautista

Which listening approach is being described in the statement?

"Try to understand the speaker's ideas before judging them."

• Info listening

• Don't judge or argue prematurely

• Look for key ideas

• Paraphrase

Which listening approach is being described in the statement?

"Listen carefully to the speaker to find out the main ideas that he or she is trying to convey."

• Info listening

• Don't judge or argue prematurely

• Look for key ideas

• Paraphrase

Which listening approach is being described in the statement? "Restate in your own words the message of the speaker. Repeating the speaker’s words as he or she says them will strengthen his or her message and help you to stay attentive."

• Info listening

• Don't judge or argue prematurely

• Look for key ideas

• Paraphrase

He also added that informational listening helps us learn, become keener, and become better at what we do in life. Consequently, it is clear that improving skills that develop our informational listening abilities is advantageous to our lives.

• Gonzales

• Tay

• Roberto

Which informational skill is being described in this statement?

'"The more words we know, the more we can understand. Therefore, increasing mastery of vocabulary through techniques like learning a new word a day or reading books can contribute in being a good informational listener."

• Knowledge of Vocabulary

• Concentration

• Memory

• Organization

• Taking notes