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INTERNATIONAL LISTENING ASSOCIATION CONVENTION
The
International Listening Association is a professional organization
whose members are dedicated to learning more about the impact
that listening has on all human activity. The International
Listening Association promotes the study, development, and
teaching of listening and the practice of effective listening
skills and techniques.
The
convention theme for 2008, Listening
Lights the Way!, is both broad in its implications
and narrow enough to allow program submissions in a variety
of areas and formats. The convention theme emphasizes the
idea that listening research and practice is an interdisciplinary
endeavor and that it is both necessary and stimulating for
listening scholars to reach out to a variety of academic and
practical fields. Among them may be communication, psychology,
pedagogy, health care, audiology, speech research, rhetoric,
linguistics, language teaching, acoustics, counseling, journalism,
human resource development, and many more.
The
convention provides a platform to learn from each other and
to encourage innovative ways of research and listening practice.
The
following are a few examples of the possible types of program
content:
Listening
Assessment: How do we know when people are
effective listeners? How can we measure effective listening?
Listening Instruction and Development:
How does listening affect learning? What strategies can we
use to help students be better listeners? What should be included
in the curriculum to enhance listening? How does listening
develop across the life-span?
Listening in Multicultural Environments
- Intercultural Communication:
What is intercultural listening? What are some of the
similarities and differences in listening among people of
different countries and cultures? How can we teach people
to be more effective listeners in international settings?
Listening to Clients and Customers:
What is the role of listening in the workplace? How can I
help my workers listen better to clients or customers?
Managerial Listening:
What are the results of good/poor listening in the organization?
How effective are managers who listen well?
Technology:
How does technology affect listening? How can we use technology
to enhance or impede listening? How can listening in mediated
communication be improved?
Social Competence:
What is listening competence? Can active, empathic listening
improve communication in our relationships with others? Why
is listening an important factor in improving our social competence?
Health: How
can listening enhance communication in health/medical settings?
How does listening benefit the healthcare practitioner? How
does listening affect the health of the listener and of the
speaker?
Environmental Health:
What difference will it make if we listen to noise? How does
sound pollution affect listening? How do music and sound affect
the ear, brain, and nervous system? How can we learn to listen
to and heed the earth/environment?
Listening Theory:
What are the underlying mechanisms driving the listening process?
Is listening synonymous with information processing? What
are different perspectives we can use to inform the study
of listening?
Spirituality and Religion:
What is the relationship between listening and spirituality?
Are the skills employed in spiritual listening different from
those used in other listening contexts?
For
further information on the convention, please refer to the
convention website at www.listen.org, follow the link Convention
2008. For convention communication please use the following
email:pres2008@listen.org.
For further information on the International Listening Association,
contact the Executive Director, Nanette Johnson-Curiskis at
ILA, PO Box 164, Belle Plaine, MN 56011 USA.
FAX: 1-952-856-5100 (Fax Outside US: +1-952-856-5100). 1-800-ILA-4505
or 1-952-594-5697 * Outside US: +1-952-594-5697. Email: info@listen.org |
