Academic Support: Communication Skills Speaking and Listening
Study Coach provides academic support to help students with writing essays, researching for a dissertation, pastoral support and providing knowledge on specific academic topics and related topics such as Speaking and Listening for effective Communication Skills.
Speaking and Listening
Speaking and Listening Skills are examined on IELTS (for people studying English as a Second Language). GCSE English students and those studying for an Access course at Further Education will also be assessed for Speaking and Listening skills. For students at University making presentations Speaking and Listening is an important part of a presentation assessment. Study Coach would like to provide academic support guidance to help with effective Speaking and Listening Communication Skills.
Listening
Listening involves making sense of what the speaker is intending to transmit. The best way of ensuring that you have done this is to give feedback or to paraphrase the message you have received.
Listening involves the use of your sensory capacities to receive and register what the speaker says. To hear and receive the speaker’s words, speech and language.
Encouraging others to express themselves fully and remembering what they communicate is all part of listening skills.
Most people are rather poor listeners, tending to pay more attention to their own thoughts and feelings than to the messages others are trying to convey.
Show the speaker that you care by applying good listening skills, basically support others, in a similar fashion to Study Coach offering academic support to aid learning.
Speaking
For guidance on speaking skills, see a previous blog: Communication Skills Learn to Speak English with Confidence Study Tips – Speaking Skills Help with English Language
Frequently Asked Question:
Do you have Speaking Skills Tips?
Answer: The short answer is ‘yes’. Interpersonal Skills researcher Nelson-Jones gives us the idea of ‘Volume, Articulation, Pitch, Emphasis, Rate’. Ensure that listeners can hear you (be audible, but not too loud), use clear speech, use emphasis when appropriate, don’t talk too fast, nor too slow.