Listening Skills

Listening Skills occurs when the brain reconstructs these electrochemical impulses into representation of the original sound and then fives them meaning. Listening Skills qualifies as the most prominent kind of communication. One study revealed that of their total communicating time, college students spent an average of 14 percent writing, 16 percent speaking, 17 percent reading, and a whopping 53 percent listening. A study examining the links between listening and career success revealed that better listeners rose to higher levels in their organizations. Listeners don’t always respond visibility to a speaker. Good listeners showed that they were attentive by nonverbal behaviors such as keeping eye contact and reacting with appropriate facial expressions. When two or more people are listening to more people are listening to a speaker, we tend to assume that they all are hearing and understanding the same message. Ninety percent of first grade children could repeat what the teacher had been saying, and 80 percent of the second graders could do so; but when the experiment was repeated with teenagers, the results were much less impressive. Only 44 percent of junior high students and 28 percent of senior high students could repeat their teacher’s remarks. Research suggests that adults listen even more poorly at least in some important relationships. One experiment found that people listened more attentively and courteously to strangers than to their spouses.