Challenges Faced by Students in Listening at University and Methods to Develop Active Listening Abilities

Assessment 2
Individual essay

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Essential challenges faced by students in listening at university.................................................1
Methods of developing active listening abilities within students................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Listening refers to a soft skill which allows masses to understand the conveyed message
from others. Listening is key aspect to all effective communication which is mainly comprised of
receiving languages through the ears. Listening mainly involves identifying and determining to
sounds of speech and processing and learning form them the words used into sentences. This
skill mainly refers to hearing to others are conveying to and understanding what it means. This
report mainly comprises of challenges faced by students while they were listening to their
educators. There are various factors why students loses their focus, interest and absence of mind
in between their lectures. Thus, to overcome these differences and other challenges, various
measures are also discussed in given report. By this students can evolve and improve quality of
learning skills (BÜYÜKAHISKA and Uyar, 2019).
MAIN BODY
Essential challenges faced by students in listening at university
 Accent: Accent is a distinctive way of speaking or pronouncing a language, which is
specially associated with a particular country, area or any social class. Accent also
varies from country to country. Most of the nations uses and speaks English language for
communication but they have a total different accent. So most of the people who are not
English will lack behind in speaking English as their accent differs from the main ones.
Accent carries a whole of a nation in their language and culture, likewise American's
accent is different and difficult for a foreign individual to understand and communicate. It
would be difficult for American to speak to Indians. The listener here learns by listening
to words spoken by speaker. Thus, words and languages used by educators play s a vital
role in learning process for students. Students tend to hear to words used by their
educator and this aids in easy learning. So educators should used easy and effective
communicative language to educate their students. The students of other nations faces
different challenges while leaving their own country.
 Remembering vital information: The students in class sometimes feel bored and their
lack of interest leads to absence of mind in lectures leading to low quality of learning
(Chaipuapae, 2019). This breaks flow of communication and learnings and messages
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