LISTENING JOURNAL ENTRIES

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Description of Listening Experience 

My listening experience where I experienced discriminative entry was a Ted Talk by Sir Ken Robinson, who made an entertaining and profoundly moving case, supporting the need to create an education system that nurtures creativity as opposed to one that undermined creativity. For this talk, my main aim was to evaluate the discriminative form of listening. The main purpose of discriminative listening is to go beyond the words being heard and detecting the underlying message through gaining comprehension on the different sounds used. 

Purpose and Behavior as a Listener

The main purpose of a believer, in this case, is to make sense of the meaning of what is being expressed through different sounds used on speech. For a listener, utilizing discriminative listening involves learning how to discriminate between sounds. This allows one to discern the emotions that the speaker is experiencing. 

Evaluation of Listening Strengths and Weaknesses 

A key strength of discriminative listening is that it goes beyond the basic auditory act and considers listening as a visual act. Through this form of listening, I was able to take into consideration the body language of the speaker. Additionally, with this form of listening, it is possible to understand more than just the verbal message being passed, as well as, the emotional connection of the speaker and the message being put across. A weakness in this form of listening is that one needs to have the ability to discriminate the sounds in a language. It may be difficult to listen perfectly where the speaker is from a different language as one is unable to subtle the necessary sounds. 

What I Learned About My Listening 

I came to understand that most of the times, I have tended to ignore messages being put across by failing to get the emotional connection of the speaker. 

Comprehensive Listening

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Description of Listening Experience 

My experience of a comprehension listening was when I was watching a Ted Talk on “Why every kid needs a champion” by Rita Pierson. Comprehension listening entails going deeper than the setting and beyond the sounds and sight to be able to comprehend the meaning of what the speaker says. Comprehension allows one to acquire the key facts from the speech of a person.

Purpose and Behavior as a Listener

The main purpose of comprehension listening is to ensure that one understand and makes sense of the spoken language. A listener, in this case, seeks to recognize speech sounds, understand the meaning of individual words, as well as, understand the syntax of sentences in which they are presented. 

Evaluation of Listening Strengths and Weaknesses 

A key strength in this form of listening is that it gives the listener an opportunity to probe the message deeper by gaining a deeper understanding of the context. A weakness in this form of listening is that it allows for prejudiced judgment by the user. 

What I Learned About My Listening

It was quite a learning opportunity for me as I learned that I took many things for granted, which contribute to not being a top effective listener. 

Comprehension Listening

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Description of Listening Experience 

In this listening experience, the speaker talks about how to teach one child at a time. The speaker, Shukla Bose, is an experienced educator but with formal education training. Listening case was aimed at understanding how to effect learner-centered education focused on treating each kid as an individual

Purpose and Behavior as a Listener

As a listener using comprehension form of listening, it is important to gain a deeper understanding as to why the speaker is so passionate about education and learn the tips being proposed

Evaluation of Listening Strengths and Weaknesses 

A strength in this form of listening is that it takes a broad approach to listen to ensure one understands the complete message. A weakness of this style is that it introduces a risk of prejudice due to individual perspective.

What I Learned About My Listening

I came to learn that I have a long way to go to enhance my listening ability