Pitfall Of Listening (Technical and Bussiness Writing ) Mam Najiba

Pitfall Of Listening (Technical and  Bussiness Writing ) Mam Najiba

(1)   Prejudice against the speaker.

Sometimes the speaker conflicts with our attitude. The summary of these conflicts is as

follows: If the speaker is not liked by the listener, the listener

may not pay attention to listening

(2)   External Distraction.

External environment affects listening a lot. Noisy fans, poor light, distracting background

music, overheated or cold room, poor ventilation and many other things distract a listener’s attention

from the speaker’s message.

(3)   Thinking speed.

On average, most of us speak between 80 and 160 words per minute. Whereas, people have

the ability to think at the rate of up to 800 words per minute. Despite this fact, the listener may have

slower thinking process due to the following reasons:

(4)   Premature evaluation.

When the listener starts evaluating the message during the process of listening, he/she is not

attentive enough to the message. This is another fault of listening.

(5)   Semantic stereotype.

There are many topics to which the listener has emotional and psychological

belongingness. So, the topic and issues which hurt his feelings are not absorbed by him easily.

(6)   Sluggishness.

If the listener is mentally or physically tired, or habitually lazy, he would feel difficulty in

listening to the message