LISTENING STYLE AS A GOAL-DIRECTED ACTIVITY

1. Listening Styles = A Reconceptualization

1.1. Habitual Nature of Listening Style

1.1.1. Stable overtime

1.1.2. Consistent across situation

1.2. Situational Listening

1.2.1. People

1.2.2. Content

1.2.3. Action

1.2.4. Time

2. Method

2.1. Participants

2.2. Procedures

2.2.1. To assess the degree of stability of an individual’s primary listening style

2.3. Participant Narratives

2.4. Measures

2.5. Role as Listener

2.6. Features of The Interaction

2.6.1. The Nature of the Interaction Itself

2.6.2. Goals as The Listener

3. Result

3.1. Examination of Style Stability

3.2. Research Questions

3.2.1. Discriminant Analysis

3.2.2. Result of The Discriminant Analysis

4. Discussion

4.1. Limitation and Direction for Future Research

5. Conclusion

5.1. Using the LSP-R for predictive purposes

5.2. Listening styles are wholly unstable across situations

5.3. LSP-R may provide another method to measure a communicators’ competence