Julian Treasure's speech was basically on Conscious Listening and Sounds. It's true how he says we don't listen as much anymore, so we are losing our listening skill. He mentions how when we communicate, we listen 60% of the time, but only really listen to 20% of the time. I agree that listening should be a skill now taught in school. Maybe then there would be better communication between everyone.
These days we are not listening as much as we used to. Today we have so many distractions with technology that it causes us to be more visual than anything. When we do listen, it's only to hear the things we have an interest in. If someone is speaking on something that we are not interested in, we tune them out and let our minds
For A Deaf Son was produced by Rob Tranchin. The film is about his son Thomas Tranchin and Thomas’s early life. Thomas is deaf child, who is born into a hearing family. When he was born, he was just like every toddle. However, his mother realized something was wrong with him when he turned one year old and a lady told her that Thomas is deaf. She was extremely shock and I think that is just a normal feeling which everyone would have if they are in the same situation. Then, his parents tried to find the best way for him.
In an Amazon.co.uk interview titled “Magic, Mystery and Mayhem: An Interview with J.K. Rowling,” when asked about the way she came up with the names of characters in her books, she replied, “I invented some of the names in the Harry books, but I also collect strange names. I've gotten them from medieval saints, maps, dictionaries, plants, war memorials, and people I've met!” J.K. Rowling chose these names for a reason based on the deeper meanings behind every character's name and the way they relate to their roles and personalities. In Octavia E. Butler's short story “Speech Sounds”, Rye and Obsidian were the names she chose for her characters. Rye, the name of the main protagonist which symbolizes home and earth yearns to reconnect with her family and to rebuild a family of her own while Obsidian, the supporting character, is named after a type of lava stone, which is believed to contain magical properties that “absorbs and destroys negative energy such as anger, criticism, and fear” (Zagata). The names of the characters have two purposes: to describe the character's role and personality, and to give them an identity.
Deaf Again is a book written by Mark Drolsbough about his life growing up as a member of the deaf community. He tells stories of the struggles of trying to fit into the hearing world. Drolsbough also details how his hearing family members made him believe as a child that being deaf is bad. He continues on with the story of his life as he finally finds his identity as a Deaf guy, with a capital D. Drolsbough then goes on to fall in love, get married, and help his mother find her proverbial voice in her family.
James C. Petersen (2007), author of Why Don’t We Listen Better, offers practical advice on how to communicate effectively and connect with others. In order to help his readers, communicate effectively, Petersen (2007) divides his book into five divisions. Each division builds on the content in the preceding portions. Every segment provides a great amount of information, which will aid people in how they choose to communicate.
We realised, we being the young filmmakers I used to hang around with, that sound is your special friend and does at least 50% of the job sharing with picture. (Coppola) (Thinking Sound, 2011)
Listening is a very popular topic and extensively discussed in today’s society. Listening is used to understand information, interpret messages and learn more about objects and other people. Michel Chion, author of “The Three Listening Modes”, discussed three main types of listening; these include causal, semantic and reduced listening. Along with these, there are also various other forms of listening that display different ways people hear and choose to interpret what they hear. The three modes of listening characterize how people listen and what they do with the information they gather and learn.
The Aural Motif of the movie of the film is “No one gets left behind!”, that is the biggest the phrase and the most important in the film. Yes the military troops came in Somalia to complete a mission, but they all knew that no matter what happens no one gets left behind, dead or alive everybody is going home. This phrase goes on repeated through out the war scenes, the phrase is basically burned into each of their minds.
As The Gift of Listening describes, “Opening one’s heart and listening at a deep level does not come easily and is rarely achieved simply by life experience” (Browning & Waite, 2010, p. 151) There are different aspects to being a good listener that are often difficult to achieve and lead to poor listening. One significant challenge to listening is the attention needed in order to actively listen to another person. Proper listening does not occur due to a passive process but instead it takes deliberate action and thought towards what a person in saying. Like previously stated, actively listening is achieved by sitting in a comfortable and open way and maintaining good eye contact. When a person does not exhibit these techniques good listening often does not occur. The challenge of utilizing different techniques in order to listen to others in a better way often gets blocked by barriers that make active listening unable to occur. In our society today one major barrier to listening is technology. In a casual setting, proper listening often doesn’t occur due to someone being tied to their cell phone. The millennial generation is often guilty of passively listening to others due to the mobile technology that is being used today. Many conversations occur without eye contact or full focus on what the other has to say and instead is spent staring at a
A comparative study of effect of noise on speech perception score in adults and children with normal hearing.
The Speaking and Listening Competencies for College Students by Sherwyn Morreale, Rebecca B. Rubin, and Elizabeth Jones, summarizes two sets of competencies for college students, as developed by various communication scholars, federal government agencies, and research centers. The competencies primarily represent speaking and listening skills that could help undergraduates communicate more effectively at school, in the workplace, and in society. The reader also is directed to the end of the study for a description of how the two sets of competencies were separately developed. The competencies presented here primarily relate to speaking and listening skills in a variety of situations. Speaking and listening do comprise much of what is often
Unit One introduces the concept of listening and being present as a foundation to collaborative conversations. Three main messages conveyed within both the Clark (2006) and Wong (2004) academic articles are; positioning oneself from a place of not-knowing, mindful listening and the importance of experiencing discomfort mindfully. These messages help to create a space for understanding through listening. A not-knowing stance repositions the client as an expert, mindful listening allows for a non-judgemental gaze, both at oneself and others, within mindful listening, discomfort is viewed as a way to promote individual growth. Creating a space for understanding makes room for a listening silence that embraces dialogue that crosses
Learning to listen – Don’t listen passively and wait for your turn to speak, but engage in the listening process. Pay attention to what the person is saying and even repeat the key points in your head.
Listening is a very important and hard skill to learn because there is a lot that goes into making a good listener. In order for us to fully understand the process of listening there are ways we need to break it down. You must be able to master these different skills in order to learn how to listen. One of the biggest things I personally do is make assumptions about what things specifically mean. I make my own judgement of an event that takes place and I put what I think the meaning behind it really is. This in return can make me not understand situations fully because I wasn 't listening in the proper way.
A skill, according the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, is a learned power of doing something competently: a developed aptitude or ability. The skill of listening is a skill that I believe everyone should have but most people lack. Many people do not realize that listening is not merely the act of hearing a sound but of paying close attention to what someone is saying and trying to understand the message that they are trying to relate to you. Most times people say they are listening when in all actuality they are merely hearing you but not even attempting to understand what is being spoken of. The advantages of being a good listener are vast. This skill can positively affect many parts of our everyday life and interaction with people. Nevertheless, it is a skilled that is overlooked in today’s unmindful society. The reason I believe that listening is of such importance is because nowadays people have developed the mentality of “every man for himself.” People are not concerned about their fellows anymore. We are only concerned about our own issues and problems. Listening is a skill that is acquired throughout a lifetime. It is an important virtue when it comes to communication.People should be taught from childhood the importance of learning how to listen. If we realized how much we would benefit from being good listeners, I believe that things would change. Lack of listening skills affects marriages, parents and children, teachers and students, employers and employees, foreign affairs, and the list goes on.
Listening is one important ingredient to success in personal and professional life. Those who master the art of listening will at the very least be regarded positively. (Purdy, Borisoff, pg. 3) We use listening skills in personal life to understand how our family and friends may feel. We practice listening skills in professional life in meetings at work, or listening to the doc when you may be sick or tending to a sick kid. Listening skills are important to ensure that we are understanding how others feel or how to do our jobs more effectively. Not only is listening a valuable skill, it is also conducive to good health. Studies have shown that when we talk our blood pressure goes up; when we listen it goes down (Lynch, 1985, p. 160, Purdy, Borisoff, pg. 3); by these studies, it may be important to understand while at appointments where you may already be nervous. However, listening is not automatic, it requires our full and conscious attention. (Purdy, Borisoff, pg. 7) Ethics are about decision-making and behavior—what is the proper thing to do in any situation. What we should do involves action; and listening, as much as any aspect of communication, is action. As an action, listening (or not listening) has real consequences for people and messages. (Purdy, Borisoff, pg. 14) Listening skills show how to learn certain aspects of our everyday life. We also use listening skills in school as a young child.