The Janusik/Wolvin Student Listening Inventory is designed to help you identify your strengths and weakness in the context of the college classroom. This is an important assessment; it will provide baseline data regarding your perceived listening strengths and weaknesses and allow you to create a plan to improve these skills. At the end of the course you will complete a follow-up analysis.
From your Janusik/Wolvin Student Listening Skills Inventory results, analyze the data and write the following report:
1. Briefly describe yourself as a communicator.
Answer: As a communicator is to speak attentive to anyone.
"How can I know what he/she wants?" Many people do not want to be rejected, criticized or guess incorrectly what others want. In addition, most people immediately say "yes" when someone asks a question.
Because most of our interaction happens through conversation, a simple technique that can be used to communicate effectively are talking attentive. I, as a communicator, the point is really paying attention and not guessing what other people think. Speaking attentive means paying attention not only to what is said, but also to understand the response of his/her interlocutor. Ranging from facial expressions, body movements and postures. Give clues to whether the other people interested, restless, wandering eyes, and bored, confused or blank stares.
2. Summarize the results of the assessment. Answer: Reception: 19, Attention: 22, Perception: 17, Assignment of meaning: 23, Response: 21. The total is 102 means “You perceive yourself to be a good listener in the classroom, but there are some steps that could use improvement”. I excelled most in the Assignment of meaning. And I showed my weakness in perception and reception section. I need to focus in receiving the information, paying attention to the speaker, and responding. In order to improve in these