Are We Losing the Art of Actively Listening to Our Patients? Connecting the Art of Active Listening with Emotionally Competent Behaviors

Active listening is an essential communication technique that requires the listener to focus and provide feedback on what is heard. The ability to listen actively demonstrates sincerity, and assumes that nothing is being shrugged or taken for granted. As a result, active listeners strive to improve professional and personal relationships, decrease misinterpretation of information, strengthen compliance, and foster understanding. Likewise, active listening can foster trust, mutual respect, and patient compliance. This paper will explore vital connections between active listening and displaying emotionally competent behaviors. Additionally, analysis of a case study as a means of strengthening these connections while improving patient outcomes will be assessed.

Listening to English Songs:an Effective Way to Learn English Words

As we know,English is an international language and important for our lives today.If you know English,you can read English magazines,newspapers,books,and also surf English websites to know more things around the world.In China.

A Study of the Application of Lexical Chunks Approach to College English Listening Teaching

Listening is an important input way of language learning,and is closely related to language learning.Now,listening is still a weakness for English learners in colleges.In recent years,many experts and scholars have explored the application of lexical chunks in teaching,trying to solve the problem of students’vocabulary acquisition.However,there are relatively few researches between lexical chunks and listening achievement.Based on the lexical chunks theory,the research finds that lexical chunks teaching can relieve students’anxiety in English listening,improve their English listening scores,and stimulate students’chunk consciousness.

Auditory Narrative in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon

This article primarily explores the centrality of sound and listening in Toni Morrison’s literary text.Drawing on theories on sound cultural studies,narratology,and cultural identity,this essay analyzes Morrison’s representation of sound and its significance on characterization,plot,and theme in Song of Solomon.Morrison’s literary sounds-voices of oral storytelling,the sound of music,and the protagonist Milkman Dead’s listening experiences are deeply rooted in African American sound culture.A close analysis of her sound writing in Song of Solomon helps to give the reader a glimpse of the soundscape of African American culture as well as the vital role listening plays in African American survival,endurance,and cultural identification.

高中英语翻转课堂在Listening and Speaking的应用

随着全球化的不断深入,英语作为国际交流的主要语言,其重要性不言而喻。在高中阶段,培养学生的英语听说能力,不仅是语言学习的基本目标,更是他们未来融入社会、实现个人价值的关键。然而,传统的英语听说教学往往存在诸多弊端,如教学模式单一、学生参与度低、缺乏实践机会等。翻转课堂作为一种新兴的教学模式,为高中英语听说教学提供了新的可能。

Analysis of Young Learners’Listening Skills

The importance of listening as one of the communication skills cannot be overstated.However,in many areas,listening is neglected.For young learners,learning to listen is even more beneficial for their future studies,therefore,listening skills should be given due importance.

Research on Learner Needs Analysis and Listening Activities

Listening is the primary method to access language information.It is an essential part of L2(second language)teaching but also the most difficult skill to master for L2 learners.Based on this,it is necessary to analyze learners’needs in listening.This article aims to conduct a needs analysis of a selected learner from Iraq and describe course material selection and design.Methods including questionnaires,interviews,and observation were used to collect data.Additionally,targeted 60-minute online listening activities were designed.It was found that listening activities can improve both listening and speaking skills.Thus,language teaching should be student-oriented,and subsequent course materials and activity design should be selected based on the analysis of students’needs.

An Analysis of Key Factors Affecting Chinese ESL Students’Listening

With the proposal of Internet-based CET,more emphasis need be attached to listening skill.In order to improve stu dents' listening skill,linguistic knowledge,psychological factors and cultural background knowledge,as three key factors affect ing Chinese ESL students,have been analyzed and the improving solutions have been suggested.

Incorporation of Learning Strategies into Web-based Autonomous Listening

The thesis introduces a comparative study of students'autonomous listening practice in a web-based autonomous learning center and the traditional teacher-dominated listening practice in a traditional language lab.The purpose of the study is to find how students'listening strategies differ in these two approaches and thereby to find which one better facilitates students'listening proficiency.

On Factors Affecting Listening Comprehension

In English teaching and learning,listening ability is an important part of communicative competence,is a very practical integrated skill.It has been a difficult skill in second language acquisition for many students.Many Chinese students are skilled in reading,but often they tend to neglect the listening.However,owing to the higher requirements of many English tests and the great importance in communication,students begin to pay attention to develop their English listening skills.But there are many factors affecting listening,the paper mainly focuses on linguistic factors and non-linguistic factors that affect listening,to provide a theoretical basis to help exploring ways of improving listening and comprehension skills.

How to Solve the Problems in English Listening

Listening is the foundation of four basic skills.It is one of the most difficult parts for students.There are a lot of problems in English listening comprehension.How to solve the problems and increase students listening ability? This paper analyses students' problems in English listening and advances some corresponding solutions and strategies.

Employing the Communicative Approach to Improve the Competence of Listening and Speaking

It is well know that a human linguistic communicative behavior,listening and speaking occupies a very important position in both our daily life and foreign language teaching.Now the classroom becomes more student-centered with the teacher allowing for students to output the language more often on their own.In order to improve the students' listening and speaking,the Communicative Approach has been exploited,which is based on communicative efficiency.It sees communicative competence of language.

Analysis on the Application of Schema Theory to Improve English Listening Teaching Effectiveness

Based on the schema theory,the paper analyzes the psychological cognitive process of listening comprehension.Schema theory provides a good theoretical basis to improve the English listening teaching effectiveness.Practice shows that the schema theory application to guide teaching practice can achieve great progress in an English listening classroom.

Application of Schema Theory to English Listening Teaching in Middle School

This paper from the point of view of cognitive psychology,which is based on the background of the Chinese middle school students’generally low ability of English listening,it explores the listening course of English language teaching which guided by Schema theory and summarizes the connotation of this theory then discusses the role of it to listening comprehension and the practical value of combining listening teaching with it.The paper also puts forward the strategy of implementation of the theory.This article aims to make students to realize the importance of background knowledge to help them to understand the listening materials and to guide the students using different strategies of Schema theory to improve their listening comprehension ability.

Study on PAD and flipped Classroom Applied to College English Teaching--Take College English Viewing,Listening and Speaking Ⅰ For Instance

PAD(presentation,assimilation and discussion) and flipped classroom mix the advantages of PAD and flipped classroom,PADand flipped classroom separate the period of a teacher's teaching and students' interaction,allowing students to assimilate the knowl-edge they learned in one week,this teaching mode considers different groups of students.A result of a recent teaching experiment showsthat this teaching mode can allocate class time more efficiently and equally to each student to practise oral English.Students are moreconfident,more willing to participate and show more interest in oral class.

Some Suggestions for College Students to Improve Listening

Language is the tool of communication. English is a compulsory course for every student. English listening, as an essential part of English learning, is an effective way to obtain new information. But for many students, the most difficult part for them is listening. The paper aims to give some suggestions to the college English learners and to help them to improve their listening comprehension abilities. Such as: to strengthen language knowledge, to build up self-confidence, to use listening strategies, to learn western culture, and to listen extensively.

A Survey on the Correlation between College English Majors' Listening Strategies Use and Listening Autonomy Proficiency

This study explored the correlation between listening strategies use and listening autonomy proficiency, and aimed to find the listening strategies that can predict a higher listening autonomous achievement. 133 English majors of Yangtze University, College of Arts and Science participated in this survey. The general situation of English majors'using of listening strategies and the correlation between different listening strategies and listening autonomy proficiency were analyzed. Based on the findings, some pedagogical implications were proposed to professional English listening teaching in higher education.

An Empirical Study on Autonomous Listening with Computer Facilities

College Students are encouraged to practise English Listening Comprehension with computer facilities after class;yet,an empirical study indicates that the multi-media facilities,the Internet and the Intranet on campus are not fully used and students are still not ready for autonomous learning.

On the Development of Chinese College Students'English Listening Autonomy

The article discusses issues related to listening autonomy including the definition of listening and autonomy.The foster of listening involve the collaborated effort of the listening teacher and student.Meanwhile three specific ways to improve listen ing autonomy are presented-keeping a listening diary,extensive listening and forming a listening online community.