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Last Updated: 29th June, 2020
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Similarly one may ask, what are the 4 types of listening?
The four types of listening are appreciative, empathic, comprehensive, and critical. Familiarize yourself with these different types of listening so you can strengthen and improve your ability to critically think and evaluate what you have heard.
Additionally, what type of listening is concerned with evaluating messages? We use informational listening to try to comprehend and retain information. Through critical listening, we analyze and evaluate messages at various levels. We use empathetic listening to try to understand or experience what a speaker is feeling.
Additionally, which type of listening should be used when listening to a poem?
In appreciative listening, we seek certain information which will appreciate, for example that which helps meet our needs and goals. We use appreciative listening when we are listening to good music, poetry or maybe even the stirring words of a great leader.
Is listening a passive process?
Listening is an active process – you have to engage in the act of listening. Hearing is a passive action that occurs naturally, even while we're asleep.