Challenges Faced by Students in Listening to Teachers in University

Assessment 2
Individual essay

INTRODUCTION
Listening is the soft skills which means that the receiver is able to understand the
message which is being conveyed by the sender to the receiver (Eveland Jr and et. al., 2020). For
having an effective communication it is important to listen what other person wants to
communicate. This essay includes the challenges faced by the students while listening to their
teachers. Their are numerous reasons why the students lost their focus and absence of mind in
between the lecture. Either due to the language barrier or culture barrier, sometimes the students
feel frustrated due to some person reasons this also leads in loosing the presence of mind. So to
overcome from these challenges various measures were also discussed in this essay. By which
the students can develop and improve there learning skills.
MAIN BODY
Describe some important challenges faced by the students at listening in the university.
 Accent – County to county the accent for speaking same language differs. Most of the
countries use English language for communication, but there accent is totally different
(Diamond, 2021). The other person know to speak in English but due to accent they will
lack behind. It's difficult for a person speaking in American accent to communicate with
a person speaking in Indian accent. The listener learners by listening words from the
speaker. The words used by the teachers should be easy to understand by the students in
order to have an effective communication. The students of other countries face this
challenges while leaving their native country.
 Remembering information – The students feels boring in listening things and they lost
their absence of mind (Perramon and Ugarte, 2020). The flow of communication and the
message which the teacher wants to deliver to the students breaks. This results in not
recalling the things what is being taught in the classes. By not listening the things
properly the students are not able to remember the part taught by their faculty. The
remembering capacity of the students starts declining when the students doesn't pay
attention during the lectures.
 Duration of lecture - The duration of lectures are long enough in the universities, with
this the students lost their energy and stamina. At the starting of the lecture they pays
attention to there teachers very actively, but by the end of the lecture they don't remember

anything. The longer duration makes the lecture boring and the students starts loosing
there interest towards the subject. This affects there listening skills as well as their
learning capacity, to avoid this the duration of the lectures could be shorten.
 Grasping ability of listener – Each and every student have different capacity to
understand things (Kuru Gönen, 2019). Some students learn things quickly while the
other student takes a lot of time in understanding thing. This all depends on the ability of
students and their grasping power. The lectures given by the faculty of the university is
same for every student. The student having good catching power will learn things quickly
as compared to the student having less ability to understand things. This is the major
challenge faced by average and below average students in a class. The confidence of the
students goes down when they are unable to answer the questions asked by their teachers.
 Vocabulary – When the students listen to the words which are easy and known by them,
then it develops the interest of the students to communicate with others. On the other
hand, if it is difficult for the students to understand the words used at the time of
communication then they lose their interest from the subject. They start feeling boring as
the things taught to them are difficult for them to understand. Selection of the words by
the teachers should be as convenient as possible so that the students develops interest in
their classes and improves their focus.
 Tired – The students not able to focus on the work properly when they feels tiered so
they feel diverted and their listen ability reduces. Due to laziness and in-activeness of
mind students may find it difficult to pay their attention in the class. The students having
more energy and stamina are trends to focus towards the studies more comfortability as
compare to the students having less energy.
 Speed of speaker – In case, the speed of the speaker is very fast then it would be difficult
for the students to understand the things their faculty wants to communicate with them.
The speed of the teachers should not be so fast and should not be so slow. The teachers
speaking with low speed will leads in boring lecture and the faculty speaking in a rapid
speed will leads in difficult for the students to understand concepts.
 Semantic barrier – The similar words have the different meaning in different countries.
When the students belongs to different countries they faces this problem of understanding
the meaning of the words (Hao and et. al., 2019). This is how the students