3344 Blog Entry #5

Listening is a complex, interactive process by which spoken language is converted to meaning. There are four different types of listening and I think I use each one everyday. The first type is called discriminative. Usually this is your pick or choose based on interest. A example would be that in school when the teacher is lecturing to the class everything the teacher might say is important but you only might want to remember or write down the things that are important to you.
Another type of listening is aesthetic. This type is usually for fun and pleasure. I think I use this one the most because everyday I watch t.v and it's for fun and my own enjoyment.
The third type is called efferent. This one is kind of hard for me. This type is used for information. I can say I use this one when I am taking notes in class or watching the news to see the weather.
Last we have critical listening. This is used for debating and listening carefully. I also use this at school when the teacher is assigning homework or instructions to a assignment.


The most challenging part of our debate I think was trying to listen to what everyone had to say. It was hard because everyone was talking at the same time and I wasn't able to hear what my team or the other team said at times. I did have fun though, and I think that we used all the four types of listening in this project.

The most important teacher talk to me was "Remember the first week when we had to really work at walking quietly? Now you guys do it automatically." I think this is important because when we teach students something it's good to go back and see if they can remember that way we can get their attention and see if they are actually learning it or not. I can recall doing this in elementary school when we had fire drills.