Effective
listening is actively absorbing the information given to you by a speaker,
showing that you are listening and interesting, and providing feedback to the
speaker so that he or she knows the message was received. In my point of view,
effective listening is more important than speaking. To support my idea I will give the reason to support my
idea.
The effective listener can signal
his or her affective engagement in the conversation by making it the only focus
of attention, and by receiving communications with acceptance and
empathy.
Action is also part of effective listening. The listener
should communicate his or her attention through non-verbal means like eye
contact, erect posture, nodding, and other positive body language. The
listener can also demonstrate engagement by broadening the range of the
conversation, such as by inquiring about or suggesting alternatives to the
topic or conclusions at hand. (Zandman, 2011)
Libuse Binder said in her book Ten Ways to Change the World
in Your Twenties, a good dialogue is based on our ability to listen to other
points of view, even when we don’t agree with them.
It is right that effective listening
is more important and beneficial than speaking. Because if we listen
effectively, our dialogue can be good. But, we also need speaking for our
communication. It is impossible if we only listen without speaking. Because to
share our ideas we need to speak it up.
Otherwise,
speaking without listening effectively is useless. because every word that we
utter from our mouth is very influential by effective listening.
To
sum up, I strongly agree that effective listening is much more essential than
speaking because if we can listen effectively, we can speak effectively.
How about effective talking? Is it useless? I dont always like listening because its boring me, i love talking and transaksional activity
BalasHapusHello ulfa.
BalasHapusyup I agree with you, but speaking is really important too, if we can't communicate how we can try to say something effectively and makes listeners listen effectively, right?. so, I think we need to speak but we also need to listen even more. be aware of it. speak less, listen more! we have two ears and one mouth, and listening also improves our knowledge. nice argument ulfa ^^ keep writing ♡ thank you
hi ulfa, your article is nice, listening is important but we can communicate with other if we just use listening skills.in my opinion speaking is also important because to interact with others we need uses voice. listening and speaking are two skills that interact one and another. thank you :)
BalasHapusHello ulfa. I agree with you, thanks for sharing nice information. I think Listening and speaking are two skills that are interconnected, because with effective listening we can practice what we have got by speaking. So effective listening helps us in speaking. Thank you.
BalasHapusYap nice upa :) i agree with u because when we was born to this world the first time we are listening,right? Our father pray azan for us to make us listen , and we always listen,listen,listen evertying what around us Sa'id until we can speak ,that's right? So we always do listening and than speaking ,actually both of that's issue is important to make it balance :) thankyou
BalasHapusYap nice upa :) i agree with u because when we was born to this world the first time we are listening,right? Our father pray azan for us to make us listen , and we always listen,listen,listen evertying what around us Sa'id until we can speak ,that's right? So we always do listening and than speaking ,actually both of that's issue is important to make it balance :) thankyou
BalasHapushi ulfa.. i agree with you if listening more important than speaking. like nawal's comment above if the first skill we get when we was born is listening. speaking is the second skill in English. So, we have to be a good listener if wanna be a good speaker.
BalasHapusYeah, that's right if speaking comes from good listening. Because what we listen that's we speak. But sometimes people difficult to catch every single words in listening through they have to see when someone speaking, so they can catch every meaning and purpose. Although actually they also listen first then speak.
BalasHapusYeah, that's right if speaking comes from good listening. Because what we listen that's we speak. But sometimes people difficult to catch every single words in listening through they have to see when someone speaking, so they can catch every meaning and purpose. Although actually they also listen first then speak.
BalasHapusGreat, Ulfa!
BalasHapusJust read the title, I immediately thought as Rizka thought about "speak less, listen more". You know why Allah created two ears and only one mouth? because Allah wants we listening more than talking
I also support other friends argument that listening influence on speaking. But in my opinion also in my experience, not all good listener will become a good speaker. I don't know how it can be infer like that.for some reason even they really pay attention with it they still can not be speak effectively. I don't know why. And what do you think guys ? Do you have any solution for them ?
BalasHapusHi ulfaa.... i agree with you. but sometime listening can not improve our speaking, so if we always practice in our daily lives that much easier and faster we speak, and more improve it. oke
BalasHapuskeep spirit in writing ulfa :) :)
yeap,, just talk what you need to talk, and then silent.. listen what the good things to listen if do not good do not listen
BalasHapussimple writting, but clear! i agree that effective listening is much more essential than speaking because if we can listen effectively, we can speak effectively.
BalasHapusThe way we listen to people speak show our attitude. I agree xoxo-L
BalasHapusI think effective listening and speaking is very important to communication. but I agree with you Ulfa, effective listening is much more essential than speaking because if we can listen effectively, we can speak effectively.
BalasHapusYes ulva, good writing, the effective listening is more important and beneficial than speaking. So if we listen effectively, our dialogue can be good because listening and speaking is conected. Thanks
BalasHapusThis is nice writing, I totally agree with your post, we must listen more and less speak. Allah has created two ears and one mouth for every human and that means we have more listen than speak, and also with a lot of hear we will get more knowledge. thank you.
BalasHapusSometimes people listen to reply, their not listen to understand. mostly, this condition happens in our daily communication.Listen effectively so you can speak more effectively.
BalasHapusgood article, when the baby was born in the world they could only hear and then they talk, if you wanna be a good speaker is difficult but if you wanna be a good listener is easy.
BalasHapustalk less listen more,..heheh
I think when we listen some information, we can easy to share that information with our friends. and when speak something, we must have resources in book, article, journals, and many so on.
BalasHapusI don’t think so. Listening is receptive skill and speaking is productive skill. So, both of listening and speaking must be balanced. Because If there is no speaking, what we have to listen. And without listening, what we have to discuss its mean we can not speak. Therefore, both of them are interdependent.
BalasHapusI think we need both of them because they are have relationship each other. When we want to listening of course there is a speaker was speaking. on the contrary speaker also need listener for listening what speaker said. thankyou ulfa dor sharing :)
BalasHapusI do agree with you Kak Upa, effective listening is more important and beneficial than speaking. Because if we listen effectively,we can get more information and our speaking also will good. And in my opinion, if we don't have knowledge, its better if we listening then speaking, because when we speaking but we do not have knowledge,people can judge our inteligen.
BalasHapusyeah i absolutely agree with all of you. listening is more effective i think althought speaking also important but sometimes when we just listen we can get many value and informations than speak a lot. nice job ulfa ^^
BalasHapusHi upa, good argument, I agree with your argument, listening more essential than speaking because if we can listen effectively, we can speak effectively.
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