The porcess of listenig

Listening 

Listening means lending ear to the spoken words with a purpose to understand the message .It is paying a conscious attention to whatever is being said. 

Steps involved in the development of listening 

 There are five step in the development of listening.

1) Perception and decoding 

perception  means the ability to recognize through senses.

decoding means making out the meaning of some thing. 

when a listener hear a spoken language. The language is in the form of continuous flow of sound and words. These words form short stretches of language which we call sentences. the second step is to make out the meaning of these sentences. This information is stored in the memory.   

2) prediction by neglecting redundancy 
   prediction means, guessing what is likely to come , neglecting redundancy means ignoring what is unnecessary.  

3) Short Term Memory

4)Long Term Memory 

5) Response