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• HEARING


  It is an accidental or automatic brain response to sound which requires no effort.
• HEARING


  It refers to the ability to perceive noise and sound.
• LISTENING


  It is purposeful and focused rather than accidental. It requires motivation and effort.
• LISTENING


  It simply means focusing on what is significant on the information you have listened to.
• WHY LISTENING IS IMPORTANT?

  • It lets you move through text logically or in an order that will help you make sense of what you are listening to.
  • It enables you to distinguish between the most and least important information presented in the selection to better comprehend it.
  • It is essential in easily understanding complicated concepts (Allen & Reason, 2015).
• Determining worth of ideas includes:


  • Identifying your purpose for listening
  • Distinguishing between important and unimportant information to identify key ideas or themes
  • Determining topic and main idea
  • Identifying author's message
  • Using knowledge of narrative or expository text features and structures
  • Recognizing relevance
• ROLE OF LISTENING IN DETERMINING THE WORTH OF IDEAS


  It is one of the comprehension strategies that you could use to differentiate between what information you are listening to is most important versus what information is interesting but not necessary for understanding.
• How can listening help you determine the worth of ideas?

  Listening enables you to process the information, evaluate it, make sense of it, and respond to it whether it would be helpful for you or not—essential or not. It would help you make sound conclusions and/or generalizations based on given data.
• When listening to the text presented, you need to do the following:

  • Concentrate and Pay Attention
  • Listen for meaning
  • Link Past and Current Learning
  • Link Past and Current Learning