Listening as active classroom skill – UGC NET Question

Listening is more than just hearing sounds; it involves attention,interpretation and mental organisation. The behaviours in the stem show that the student is actively processing the lecture. Such engaged reception is what communication theorists call effective listening.

Option A:
Hearing is a physiological process that may occur even when attention is low. It does not guarantee understanding.

Option B:
Therefore listening is the correct term for the skill described because it includes active processing and organisation of the message.

Option C:
Encoding is a sender's activity of creating messages,not a student's role when following a lecture.

Option D:
Redundancy refers to repetition of parts of a message,not to the receiver's skill.