ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC

AND PROFESSIONAL
PURPOSES

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

INSTRUCTOR: Mr. Paul Nikko Corpuz Lubat, LPT
Process of transmitting ideas from one
person to another
Exchanging of information between or
among persons for better understanding
Communication has two main divisions:
Verbal
Non-Verbal
Non-Verbal Communication
 Includes facial expression, body movement,
signs, and gestures used to convey or to
deliver ideas
 Concerned more with how to reinforce the
transmission of ideas without words
 Generally refer to a mode of
communication transmitted thru actions and
appearance
Verbal Communication
 Both written and oral communication
 Concerned more with what words shall
be used to express a message or an idea
 Maybe in writing or oral writing
 Specific Competencies in Language
Learning/Arts:
 Listening Skills
 Speaking Skills
 Reading Skills
Writing Skills
Measured by one’s ability to
understand and remember the word or
words spoken and heard
ACTIVE LISTENING
 Process of exemplifying the conscious
and attentive way of using the sense of
hearing
 Exemplifies the hearer’s interest to
actively participate in understanding
what is being heard
 Passive Listening
 Process of using the sense of hearing
in submissiveness
 Indicative of one’s attitude of being
relaxed and somewhat unconcerned
with what is being heard
Serious Listening
 Corresponds to one’s way of assessing
and evaluating whatever is heard from
a speaker
 Further classified into two categories:
 Critical listening
 Social listening
 Critical Listening
 Mode of listening whereby the listener
exercises evaluative and careful judgment.
 Sort of selective listening
 Attentive Listening- shows earnest and careful
attention
 Reflective Listening- placing himself in the
shoes of the affected
 Reactive Listening-reacts to what is heard with
the form of excitation
 Social Listening
 Listener socially enjoys what is heard
 Appreciative listening- manifests non-verbal
signs in appreciating what is heard
 Conversational listening – process of
undergoing participative listening
 Courteous listening- polite and gracious way
of interacting with someone who converses
 Foreign studies disclosed that 30% of a man’s
time per day is regularly allotted to sleeping;
70% to his waking hours approximately
distributed to the following communication
channels:
1. Listening – 31%
2. Speaking – 21%
3. Reading 11%
4. Writing – 7%
“Man was created with two ears and with only one
mouth
so that he could listen twice as much as he could
speak.”