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LISTENING STYLES OF THE POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE: A STUDY OF KARNATAKA STATE

    2 Author(s):  YASHAVANTH K N,B S MAHESWARAPPA

Vol -  10, Issue- 10 ,         Page(s) : 126 - 135  (2019 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

The main purpose of the present study has undertaken to discover the four types of listening styles and constraints of the 397 students with [Feminine 255 viz. (64.2%) and Masculine 35.8% respondents (142)] who enrolled for the Library and Information Science regular programs offered by the 10 universities and 2 postgraduate centrers, located in the different locations within the Karnataka State, India. Further, the response of the 397 respondents was collected haphazardly on a face-to-face basis via the designed questionnaire (Selected Standard Inventory.). Besides, the quantitative data were analyzed using crosstabs in SPSS version 21. Subsequently, the generated results have meticulously organized and computed in tabular forms, while the qualitative data probed deductively and inductively set up on the research questions to draw the pattern of outcomes. Finally, the findings revealed that the ‘Passive’ listening style has offers highest figure with 244 respondents viz. 61.5%, followed by the 112 ‘Involved’ educates, videlicet 28.2%, and the ‘Detached’ listeners who stood in the third position at 35 (8.8%) pupils, whereas ‘Active’ listening recorded barely 06 partakers viz. 1.5% of the overall participants involved in this study.

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