listening and speaking

Listening is the recognition of sounds produced and decoding and digesting the produced sounds. In this article, we shall discuss basic knowledge of listening skills and the purposes of listening…

Listening is just a matter of hearing sounds or spoken words, for it is possible to hear sounds accidentally or hear what a person says without taking in the meaning…

Listening is a vital component of oral communication, a component much neglected in the study of human communication. The listening process takes about half of the time we spend in…

Another fundamental communication-sending skill in man is speaking. Speaking is to listening what writing is to reading. In order words, speaking provides the raw materials which listening consequently processes. What…

Listening is a more advanced human activity than hearing because the former requires an effort by the listener to receive information, whereas the latter does not. When an unexpected visitor…