Title: WEEK 6: LISTENING SKILLS II : LISTENING IN FORMAL SITUATIONS
Course: Communication Skills

This unit will introduce you to listening interruptions/problems with intent to correct poor listening habits in both speech and/or text/comprehensive assimilation in order to help you unlearn bad listening habits, and instead acquire good attitudes for effective listening required for your career development.

In this unit, you will learn about listening disruptions or sources of listening problems as well as correcting poor listening habits and attitudes for effective listening.

Week 6 Learning Outcomes

At the end of this unit, you will be able to:

1. Demonstrate and solve the listening barriers.

2. State positive attitudes of effective listening

Overview of student activity

The assigned reading above ( Listening Barriers and Distruption) and the videos below discussed the effective listening habit to overcome barriers and distruptions

Pre-topic Activity

Read the articles below for information on Listening Barriers and Distruption

http://dinus.ac.id/repository/docs/ajar/Communication-in-the-Real-World-An-Introduction-to-Communication-Studies.pdf

https://2012books.lardbucket.org/books/a-primer-on-communication-studies/index.html

Summarise your notes about listening barriers, disruptions and explain which of them you found applicable to your own situation. Post your summary to the designated portal. The assigned reading above (listening barriers, disruptions ) and the videos below discussed the effective speaking skills.

Videos to Watch

Video 1: Listening barriers

- Video 2: Poor Listening Habit