Types of listening

there are several types of listening, each serving different purposes:

1. **Active Listening:**

This is when you focus entirely on the speaker, show empathy, and provide feedback to ensure understanding.

 Example: When a friend is sharing their problems, you actively listen by nodding, maintaining eye contact, and saying, "I understand how you feel."

2. **Passive Listening:** 

This involves hearing what is said without actively responding or engaging with the speaker. Example: Watching TV or listening to background music while doing household chores.

3. **Critical Listening:** 

Critical listening involves evaluating and analyzing what you hear to form an opinion or make a decision.

 Example: Listening to a political debate and assessing the arguments of different candidates.

4. **Empathetic Listening:**

This type of listening involves not only understanding what the speaker is saying but also trying to understand their feelings and emotions. 

Example: Consoling a friend who is upset and saying, "I can see that you're really hurt by this."

5. **Informational Listening:** 

This is listening to gain knowledge or gather information. 

Example: Attending a lecture to learn about a new scientific discovery.

6. **Appreciative Listening:** When you engage in appreciative listening, you listen to enjoy or be entertained by what's being said. This often happens when listening to music, stories, or speeches.

7. **Selective Listening:** In selective listening, you pay attention only to specific parts of the conversation that interest you, often filtering out other information.

8. Discriminative Listening:** Discriminative listening involves distinguishing between different sounds or noises. Example: Recognizing the different instruments in a piece of music.

9. **Sympathetic Listening:** Similar to empathetic listening, sympathetic listening involves showing concern and care for the speaker 

10. **Judgmental Listening:** In this mode, the listener forms opinions or judgments about what's being said, sometimes without fully understanding the speaker's perspective.

11. Comprehensive listening :-

 Comprehensive listening means really paying attention to understand everything someone is saying. For instance, when your teacher explains a math problem, you listen carefully, ask questions if needed, and make sure you grasp how to solve it step by step.

12 . Rapport listening

Rapport listening means really paying attention and understanding how someone feels. 

For example, if a friend is upset and talking about a problem, you listen closely, show empathy, and ask questions to help them feel heard and supported.

13.Intensive Listening :-

Intensive Listening: It is a listening activity with a particular purpose objective, In this listening activity, in order to get specific information, a listener fully concentrates to receive the text/ materials. For example, classroom listening activity by the learners for examination purpose, instructions given by the guardians at home; or given by the coach at the playground, etc. is the process of intensive listening.

 14. Extensive Listening: It is a listening activity which is casually performed by the listeners with a low level of concentration, motivation and without specific objectives. For example, routine classroom listening activity, listening in the day to day communication, simple chat while walking, etc. are the process of extensive listening.

15 . Therapeutic listening :-

Therapeutic listening is a way of listening carefully to someone who needs to talk about their feelings and thoughts in a safe and supportive environment, like when a counselor listens to a person who's feeling anxious or sad to help them feel better.