Suppose April and her older brother Ed are having lunch at a bar-and-grill type restaurant, which gets rather loud especially during “happy hour”. The importance of using this listening type in an interpersonal relationship is because you actively determine which auditory sounds to listen to and filter out all the other sounds that are not important to you. We learn to discriminate between sounds within our own language early, and later are unable to discriminate between the phonemes of other languages. If you cannot hear differences, then you cannot make sense of the meaning that is expressed by such differences. This most basic type of listening helps you determine what sound is coming from where or who is making the sound. These five listening types were selected because they all provide an important framework in the listening process and they have stood the test of time, as scholars have not been able to add on to them.ĭiscriminative listening is listening to distinguish aural and sometimes visual stimuli (Wolvin and Coakley, 1996). For the purposes of this section, Wolvin and Coakley’s five listening types will be covered: discriminative listening, comprehensive listening, critical listening, appreciative listening and therapeutic listening. A major part of that book is about developing purposeful listening skills with a “taxonomy of listening that describes how listeners function at various listening purposes or levels” (1996, p. Many of today’s well-known listening standard books were published in the 1980s, like Listening (1996, 1985) by Andrew Wolvin and Carolyn Gwynn Coakley. The various types of listening can be categorized based on the listeners’ goals which can enhance or impede effective listening. Listening is a social and contextual act. “ Relationally oriented listening is the dynamic, interdependent, and uniquely human process of signaling attention, affection, empathy, understanding and responsiveness through a vast repertoire of specific behaviors (Beard & Bodie, 2014 Bodie, 2010, 2011b, 2012a)” (Bodie & Denham, 2017, p.
Another term similar to interpersonal listening is relationally oriented listening. “ Interpersonal listening is listening that occurs between people it occurs in both informal and formal contexts” (Wolvin, 2017, p. For readers being introduced to interpersonal communication for the first time, that type of listening is most likely called interpersonal listening. If you are motivated and interested in listening to another person then that type of listening is important at that moment. By some accounts, there are at least 18 different types of listening (See Table 1 in Appendices). There are many different types of listening. Just to be clear, in this Module, an interpersonal relationship refers to the association, connection, interaction and bond between two or more people. If you can relate to at least one of these scenarios, then you may have already started to suspect that there isn’t just one way to listen.
You may be able to pay attention to your professor’s lecture for 50 minutes, but listening to your co-worker’s five-minute presentation makes you incredibly sleepy. For instance, you may find it easier to listen to your grandmother than to your younger brother.
Given the many different kinds of relationships, you might have noticed that you listen to different people in different ways and for different reasons. Second, you will also learn about different listening habits. Now that you are becoming more confident in your ability to define listening in your own terms and have a deeper understanding of the listening process, you might be asking yourself, what is all the hype about listening? In this Module, first, you will learn about several different types of listening.
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