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| Listening Skills |  The one skill which is very helpful for you as a tutor is the skill to listen. There are strategies to take into account that can improve your ability to "hear" a lecture and cooperate with communicated instructional material.
Which activity requires the most amount of listening? Listening occupy nearly 20 percent of all school related hours of students. Students spend about 50 percent of their waking hours just listening if television watching and one-half of conversations are involved. If those hours spent in the classroom include, the amount of listening time can be almost 100 percent. You can review your own activities, especially those related to college. Are most of your activities concentrated around listening, especially in the classroom?
Modern research has discovered that although we spend a large percentage of our time listening; only a small amount of what we have heard actually is recorded in our brain. One of the incredibly important part of study and communication skills is development of active listening skills.
The first skill that you can practice to be a good listener is to act like a good listener. Every day we receive a great amount of the information that is thrust at us. It is important to change our physical body language from that of a deflector to that of a receiver, much like a satellite dish. Most of the receptive equipment in our bodies is on our faces, so it is natural that we should turn our faces towards the source of information.
One of the most important bodily receptors is your ears. You can listen better when you look at the other person. Your eyes register the non-verbal signals that all people produce when they are speaking. A speaker will work harder at producing the information when he sees a receptive audience in attendance. Your eyes help complete the communication circuit that must be established between speaker and listener.
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