Listening purposes

______________ exchanges are message-oriented rather than listener-oriented thus the information needs to be got across accurately, clearly and coherently.

The two categories, interactional and transactional, are not polar.

Watching television, listening to the radio, listening to announcements at the station, or listening to a lecture are examples of ____________

_________________ listening is for our own enjoyment: listening to a play or a concert, going to a poetry recital.

_____________listening, which is what we tend to do in class, usually has a clearly- defined aim. It often occurs for study purposes.

________________uses are those in which language is being used primarily for communicating information.

______________ exchanges include things like greetings, small talk, party chat, and so on. Although some information may be relayed in the process, this is not the main purpose of it.

listening to an announcement at an airport to find out which gate our flight leaves from is __________________.

_________________ uses of language are those in which the primary purposes are social.

___________________ listening is, typically, listening in conversations where the listener is also a speaker.

Listening at length e.g. watching a TV soap, a film, and so on with no focus on testing the listener’s understanding of the content is termed _______________