"intensive listening" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when describing a situation requiring very focused and attentive listening, such as taking detailed notes at a lecture or seminar. For example: "I was required to do intensive listening during the seminar so I could take accurate notes."
Its literature promises not lessons in technical mastery but in "keen awareness, personal expression, intensive listening and cross-cultural communication".
Students acquire proficiency in Swahili at an accelerated pace through intensive listening, speaking, reading, and writing, with special insight into Swahili-speaking cultures.
As the audience ponders its intricately layered pulse and shimmer, few would suspect that the young composer does his most intensive listening to gamelan while he plays his Xbox 360.
"When I listen really carefully, it allows me to push students hard and help them see what they have within themselves," says Harvard Business School professor Joshua Margolis, who makes intensive listening a requirement for himself and who asks the same of students.
This, along with intensive listening and background research, should help your understanding.
He quit high school at fifteen to become the youngest "piano pounder" in Tin Pan Alley, and the rest of his education was left to what he called "intensive listening": in the concert halls (he favored Russian composers, like himself), at Broadway revues, in the Yiddish theatres, and, increasingly, in the clubs of Harlem.
Devotees of Elvis Costello will find this collaboration with hip-hop band the Roots a more labour-intensive listen, perhaps, than the casual arriviste.
Students receive intensive training in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, supplemented by audio and video materials.
Students acquire beginning proficiency in Korean at an accelerated pace through intensive speaking, reading, listening, and writing.
An intermediate course that continues intensive training in listening, speaking, reading, and writing and consolidates achievements from the first year of study.
Now for the final, labor-intensive approach: Listen to smart people who don't have a vested interest but are trying to analyze the deal in a comprehensive way.
