TYPES OF

LISTENING
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 What is Listening?

•Listening is the ability to accurately

receive and interpret messages in
the communication process.
 Types of Listening

•Informative Listening
•Critical Listening
•Appreciative Listening
•Discriminative Listening
 Informative Listening

• Informative listening is the name we give to the situation

where the listener’s primary concern is to understand the
message. Listeners are successful insofar as the meaning
they assign to messages is as close as possible to that which
the sender intended.
• The main goal of listening is for you to understand the
message and obtain the information that we need
 Examples of informative listening:

• When you listen to the instruction or discussion of your

teacher.
• Listening to news from the radio.
Critical Listening
• Critical listening is listening in order to evaluate the
message and provide sound judgments.
• Critical listening skills go far beyond just hearing a
speaker's message. They involve analyzing the
information in a speech and making important
decisions about truth, authenticity and relevance.
 Example of critical listening:
• When you listen to a political speech and appraise the
claims of the speaker. As such, you try to determine the
truth value of the speaker’s claim . Evaluation takes
place when the ideas of the speaker are scrutinized
and probed.
 Appreciative Listening
• Appreciative listening includes listening to music for
enjoyment, to speakers because you like their style. It is
the response of the listener, not the source of the
message, that defines appreciative listening. That which
provides appreciative listening for one person may
provide something else for another.
• It is your response to the listening stimuli that determines
whether you appreciate it or not.
 Examples of appreciative listening
• Hard rock music is not a source of appreciative listening for me. I
would rather listen to gospel, country and jazz.
• I would like to listen to the theater, television, radio, and films.
 Discriminative Listening
• Discriminative Listening is when the listener distinguishes
between the verbal and the nonverbal message.
• is being sensitive to changes in the speaker’s rate,
volume, force, pitch, and emphasis, the informative
listener can detect even nuances of difference in
meaning.
Example of discriminative listening

• For instance, your friend may tell you that they are
feeling good, but the frown on their face
and their sluggish posture may tell
you otherwise.
 THE WORD
LISTEN
CONTAINS
THE SAME LETTERS
AS THE
WORD
SILENT
-Alfred Brendel
THANK YOU FOR
WATCHING
AND
LISTENING