DO'S AND DONT'S OF LISTENING

DO'S :

• Be mentally prepared to listen.
• Be unbiased to the speaker by depersonalizing your feelings.
• Fight distractions by closing off sound sources.
• Be open minded.
• Ask questions to clarify and corroborate thoughts.
• Paraphrase from time to time.
• Send appropriate non-verbal signals from time to time.

DONT'S :

• Pay undue emphasis to the vocabulary as you can use the context to understand the meaning.
• Evaluate the speaker.
• Pay too much attention to the accessories and clothing of the speaker.
• Prepare your responses while the speaker is speaking.
• Avoid preconceptions and prejudices.Concentrate too hard.
• Interrupt too often.
• Show boredom even to an uninteresting speaker.

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S.Suganya

Pre-final year,cse.