Active Listening is a method to improve listening skills, especially suitable for English learners at the basic level. This method requires high concentration, using multiple senses to receive and understand the message. STUDY4 will analyze in detail about Active Listening, benefits, difficulties and solutions when practicing listening in the article below.

 

I. What is Active Listening in IELTS Listening?

The term “Active Listening” was first introduced in 1957 by Carl Rogers and Richard Farson. This is not only a communication technique but also an important skill that helps improve the effectiveness of interactions in many fields, from work to personal life.

Active listening requires the listener to not only simply receive sounds but also focus all of his or her attention on the content that the speaker is conveying. This means that the listener needs to try to understand the meaning of the message, emotions and opinions of the speaker, instead of just listening passively without any real participation.

 

II. Benefits of Active Listening

1. Improve the ability to receive and understand listening content

Active listening practice helps learners improve their listening comprehension. When practicing this method, the brain must concentrate highly to receive and process information, thereby helping the process of memorizing and grasping content to take place more quickly and effectively. Maintaining concentration while listening not only helps learners better understand the message being conveyed but also improves their ability to analyze and reason based on context.

 

2. Enhance memory and information storage capacity

Focusing on listening and repeating the content many times helps the brain recognize this as important information that needs to be stored for a long time. In addition, during the active listening process, learners often give feedback and assessment on the content they have heard. This not only helps them identify mistakes but also draws experience to improve listening skills, while increasing the ability to process and store information more effectively.

 

3. Effectively apply listening knowledge to practice

Once learners have understood and remembered information from the listening process, they can easily apply the knowledge to similar situations. This helps them expand their vocabulary, master sentence structures and improve pronunciation recognition. Over time, this knowledge becomes an important foundation, supporting learners to improve their listening comprehension skills in other listening lessons and in real-life communication.