Listening Skills
Why is listening with all your Senses is important
There are various means and ways through which learners acquire knowledge and the acquisition of knowledge depends much on the methods or the learning styles that the learners are subjected to or trained through. VARK which is an acronym for Visual, Auditory, Read/write, Kinesthetic, as a learning style is one of the mostly used in institutions that learners are taken through or used to ensure that the learners imbibe the concepts that are being taught to them. It is the combination of all these modes of learning that make up the listening with all the sense in an academic environment as will be discussed below from by Matt Baker (2011).
The Auditory group is assumed to learn best by hearing the source of the learning. This group ca generally be at an advantage in lectures and talks but could fare poorly in handling assignments since there is a wide scale of reading that is involved in that yet they are used to auditory engagement. In such situations, the teachers can help this lot by encouraging assignments that are based on discussions such that they can verbalize the key issues and internalize them better.
The Visuals part assumes that the learner best gets the concepts being taught to them through sight or seeing. This group therefore benefits most and in a more comfortable manner when the teacher writes the points on the board as compared to if the teacher just speaks out the points loudly, they will also be noted to like writing quite a lot during the class session (Carol Kanar, 1990). The teacher will therefore strive...
In the contemporary classroom setting, the teacher can also use PowerPoint presentation to aid such learners that are assumed to be under this category as well as ensuring that the class or the learning environment has a lot of visual learning aids.
Those learners that are characterized under the Read-write learners are seen to be enjoying the highest advantage as these are the predominant modes that are used in the daily class settings especially at the higher grades of an individual's learning. This category of learners will always strive to take down notes during lectures so as to be able to read them later on.
The Kinesthetic kind of learners are those who learn best by doing the things that they learn as well as using to the maximum possible their senses of touch. This is a method that is applied especially at the lower grades with younger learners. The teachers at these grades are therefore encouraged to involve hands on activities in all the learning endeavors of the learners is they are to get anything at all, the students can be encouraged to move around, get up all the time and even touch things here and there with an aim to learn (Carol Kanar, 1990).
Strategies that will enhance a person's ability to become a better listener
Listening is a skill that is quite challenging to effectively master hence needs quite a lot of training and attention just like the art of being a good speaker. Larry Alan Nadig (2011) looks at some of the most salient aspects that one should put into active…
