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Topic LISTENING TO LECTURES

Key Points Notes

The Flow of Listening First, prepare yourself to listen.
to Lectures You need to focus your attention on the
lecture. This means disregarding many
of the other stimuli around you. This is
particularly important when you are
trying to listen to a video lecture in a
rather noisy place. In this case, you may
have to find a quieter place.

Ways of Second, understand what kind of talk

Understanding the the speaker is making.

Speaker and other Is the speaker providing information? Is

the speaker arguing a position?
Kinds of Spoken Texts
Knowing what kind of spoken text you
are listening to will help prepare you to
organize what you are hearing. Other
kinds of spoken text include process
analysis, classification, description,
narration, and combinations of these.

Organizing What You Third, organize what you hear.

Hear As you listen, you need to organize
what the speaker is saying into an
outline. This means you need to pick
out the main ideas and understand the
details that support them. You need to
see how the details support the main
ideas. You can try to make connections
between what a speaker is saying with
what she or she previously said, and
prepare yourself to connect these with
what they will say next.
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Topic LISTENING TO LECTURES

Key Points Notes

Fourth, critical listening means applying
Critical Listening
proper logical processes to what you
Process listen to.
For one, you need to see if the speaker is
making unwarranted assumptions.
Then you also need to differentiate facts
from opinions.
Third, you need to understand if the
speaker is making claims.
If so, then you need to evaluate if the
speaker is providing arguments that
really support those claims. Critical
listening is a very important kind of
listening.

Verbal and Non- Fifth, pay attention to verbal and

Verbal Cues nonverbal cues.
Often speakers support their words with
verbal and nonverbal cues.
Verbal cues include speaking slowly or
fast, speaking in low or high volume,
making pauses, and varying the rhythm
of their speech.
Nonverbal cues include facial
expressions, gestures, eye contact, and
even the space they make between
themselves and the audience. This is
called Proxemics.

Selective Listening Sixth. Listen selectively.

Sometimes you need to pay attention to
specific information the speaker
provides. This is particularly true when a
speaker is arguing a position. In doing so,
you can evaluate if the information the
speaker provides is factual, bogus, or
based on unwarranted assumptions.
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Topic
LISTENING TO LECTURES

Key Points Notes

Repeating Your Notes
Seventh, repeat to yourself.
Sometimes a speaker gives a quotable
quote or a significant idea. This may be
from him or herself or from another
person. One way to retain this quote or
idea is to repeat it to yourself. You
may even say it out loud because
hearing yourself can help you
remember.

Providing Feedback last, provide feedback

Sometimes a speaker gives a quotable
quote or a significant idea. This may be
from him or herself or from another
person. One way to retain this quote or
idea is to repeat it to yourself. You
may even say it out loud because
hearing yourself can help you
remember.

Conclusion In conclusion, you can benefit more

from listening to lectures if you apply
important listening skills and
techniques.

Summary
This eight listening process helps us to learn the techniques and the verbal and
nonverbal cues that are being made by the speaker for us to understand them
quickly. It is challenging for us to listen to every speaker or lecture because not
all of us have a long attention span or are occasionally interested in the subject
being covered. You will learn how to value each communication skill being
conveyed during the communication process by using these eight tips for
listening attentively to every lecture or speaker.