listening is most important in communication

A Communication is by definition a two-sided process: a message cannot be communicated unless there is someone to receive it. Discussion of the implications of a communicative approach to the teaching of spoken language tends to emphasis the development of the student’s ability as sender of spoken messages. By looking at the listening to focus on the development of the student’s ability as receiver of spoken messages.
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Geddes,Marion.
‘Listening’ (Communicating in the classroom)

“Seven out of every ten minutes that you and I are conscious, alive and awake we are communicating verbally in one of its forms; and our communication time is devoted 9% to writing, 16% to reading, 30% to speaking, and 45% to listening.”
- Nichols, Ralph
(Communicating, page no- 211)

It shows that, why listening is the most important in the communication skills, because it covers half of the part of the communication to make more effective. Without listening no one can attempt good communication. Listening is not talking and talking is not listening. Listening means listening, it means hearing in a unique way. It means understanding, and attempting to get at the basic elements of the other persons story. “The old saying is that you cannot take any more water out of the well than the size of the pail you lower” Hearing is the process where in sound waves strike the eardrum and cause vibrations that are transmitted to the brain. Listening occurs when the brain reconstructs these electrochemical impulses into a representation of the original sound and them gives them meaning. Listening is an ability of learning tool. It offers unusual opportunities for broadening your knowledge.

Listening as compared to reading is sometimes a faster, more efficient means of gathering information. Many times a listener can obtain valuable information not easily found in written form. A survey indicates that an average adult spend nearly half of his communication time in the act of listening. Most of us listen with less than 50 percent accuracy. Messages are misheard or not heard more often then they are received correctly. And most of us remember less then 50 percent of what we hear. How tragic this is when satisfying our needs depends so heavily people in your personal relationships that they have your attention and your respect. It is a way of showing that you have to say, and in keeping your personal relationship alive. Your friends will like you for letting them talk and for listening attentively while they express themselves.

Listening skill can improve communication in almost every setting. It improves both understanding and remembering the information. They can add in establishing interpersonal relationships on every level from ritual to intimacy. Listening, well, can help to evaluate messages from people who want to affect the behavior and believe. Listening skill helps to learn what verbal and nonverbal messages will be appropriate and clear to receivers. Even, listening can help you as much as speaking.

Listening is a skill that needs to be mastered. Everyone cannot be an essential for developing good listening skills is cultivation of a positive attitude. It is difficult to listen objectively to what the other person says if listening begins on a negative note. A positive inclination enables the receiver to be opened to the suggestions and statements made by the sender. A closed mind and unwillingness listening to ideas that suggest a deviation from the norm lead to an unreceptive attitude.