Listening challenges and strategies to overcome them in higher education

This essay discusses the challenges faced by students in academic listening and suggests strategies to overcome them. It includes five major challenges and five strategies to improve listening skills. The subject is Study Skills for Higher Education, and the course code is BA in Business Studies (Foundation Year).

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Introduction
Listening skills are related with the way students have to interpret what people are saying
with respect to academic situations. If for instances they are not able to understand the
content or any other such difficulties (Tambunan and et.al., 2018). In present essay there is
analysis of the challenges that may arise in the course of such listening skills for this purpose
the teacher has to formulae cetin strategies so that there can be management of the way
students are able to enhance their listening abilities with respect to academic and future
professional development.
Main body – includes two parts
1. Discuss five of the listening challenges from the article.
From the analysis of the article it can be said that there are five major challenges that
generally arise in the course of listening skills in the academic context. For this purpose firs
challenge that mostly arise when teacher is starting the lecture is false starts and repetitions.
False starts are not used very common as corrections and repetition. It occurs more often
when a conversation may become intense with many speakers who are speaking at once and
they may get interrupted (Avci. and Doghonadze, 2017). It may also tale place when speaker
may become exited ot is skipping from one topic to another. These instances are very
common it may sometimes have a detrimental impact because of the limitation of false starts
that may occur in the middle of any sentence or after disclosure. In this situations teacher
may have to focus on repairs process that is burdened because of false start.
Another challenge that may arise in this situaion is related with technical terms that is
difficulty in arising some of the technical terms and further having more risk in understand,
pronouncing or spelling some of the words. Technical terms in professional context can be
difficult to hear and may lead to difficulty in the process of explaining to students the major
reason behind the term and its meaning in a particular context. For the purpose of teaching
teachers may be using some of the terms that are complete technical and may be difficult to
understand in this situation it becomes difficult for students to explore the real meaning of
such concepts.

Words with dependent prepositions are related with difficulty of using prepositions that is
one of the difficult tasks that is faced by English language learners. In this situation it can
lead to hardships where it may become difficult in the process of proper alignment in the
course of business. Generally while teaching the challenges is related with the key difference
between a phrase verb & the preposition that is dependent verb (Erlmann, 2020). It is
followed by the adverb where the phrase posses its own meaning. Therefore, part from this
the main reason for this challenge is that there are different dependent preposition
combinations that may mean the same thing for example a object may belong to something or
property of someone and then it can be owned by some all the combinations imply ownership
but sometimes it is a challenge and it may become difficult of no proper translations is
possible in other languages (Peters, 2021).
In the process of academic listening while the teacher is willing to explanting about a specific
topic or some theory there can be a challenge that may lead to impact pd meta cognitive
strategies on the comprehension of group or sometimes can be for individual student also
(Wilbourne and Cusick, 2021). Listening is sometimes connected with focussing on each
word that is spoken in the context of a lecture. Sometimes there can be technical jargons or
words that cannot be understood by students that is because of the high level or some
technical aspect that is associated with that particular word. Additionally, As part of the
challenge there is difficulty for students during listening process of the perception that they
may build up while the teacher is speaking or using such technical words in lecture.
Sometimes the technical words also posses some of the accent that may not lead to proper
exposure of authentic listening of students.
Cognitive processing of numbers and statistics is also a challenge that is related with the
usage of quantitative information or numerical information by teacher while they are
speaking or explaining some of the important aspect as part of a specific topic in a lecture. It
is a type of acoustic challenge that arise in the process of listening for students when they are
not able to understand the exact meaning of the words that reduces the fidelity of the
information that is reaching to listeners perceptual system (Dawenan., 2021). It generally
takes place when the information involves some numbers that cannot be related by the
students that is in which context it is being spoken by the teacher. In many instances it may
become difficult to understand the way information has to be interpreted by the student and
connect it with the theoretical perspective of particular topic it can lead to a complete

confusion in the minds of students and they may not posse’s basic understanding of the
relevance of such numerical information.
2. Suggest strategies teachers can use to help students improve their listening skills
While the above listening challenges that may arise in the process of delivering of lectures for
this purpose there can be formulation of certain strategies that can help in dealing with all
such challenges that are faced by students (Hadi, Izzah and Putri, 2021).
Active listening is related with way students can deal with demands and daily pressures ro
focus on the listening aspects and deal with the challenge of no proper understanding of
information (Benjamin and Kline, 2019). Active listening is a valuable technique that is
related with the students where they have to absorb, respond, understand and further retain
the information that is being said by the lecturer. Therefore, it helps in including of feeling,
values and facts that are being shared for the students can pay attention, withhold judgements,
reflect if they understood the emotions and information, clarify if there is ambiguity or
unclear while they are engaging in active listening. Lastly they have to summarise the
conversation proceeds and speak what they grasp in the whole listening process.
Listen for detail is also a strategy that is related with the way students have to focus on group
of words and phrases at sentence level. It is also related with the technique identification of
emotion, inferring meaning, predicting, listening of opinions that can lead towards
understanding each and every detail of the words that are spoken by the teacher in a lecture.
In case of active listening there is need of more concentrated efforts and focus of the students
where they have to focus on the use of tone, language and the body language of the speaker
in all instances (Liu., Chenand Hwang, 2018).
Another strategy that is used by students for the purpose of enhancing the effectiveness of
listening process is the listening for gist and reaches to proper conclusions (Trang, 2020).
Listening for gist where the learner has to understand what is happening even if they are not
able to understand any phrase or sentence. In this learner has to pick up the intonation, key
words and various other clues that can help them in understand the basic meaning of the
whole information that is spoken by the teacher. It becomes very important to relate to the
gist becuse it is basically the summary in easy language.

Know the context is an aspect that is when students have to be aware of the specific words of
the passage that is explaining the whole context of situation. Context is basically related with
the surrounding words, ideas and circumstances that are setting up the backgrounder a
context, idea and statement. In this case the students can focus on the context of what is being
spoken even if they are literally not able to depict the meaning of the words (Williams, 2018)
.
Another strategy that can be used is related with the signposting language that guides the
listener through presentation. A good presenter will be usually using the signpost language
that can be an idea of listening of presentations. It can be fairly information so that it becomes
easy to understanding for the students if they are not able to inference from the meaning of
technical words and technical jargons.

Conclusion
It is concluded from the abovementioned information that listening is one of the most
important aspects that has to be considered by the students for the purpose of managing the
process of academic learning. For the purpose of improving the listening abilities generally
the main aspects is to focus on detail and understand the context of what is being spoken by
the teacher so that correct inferences can be drawn from the whole situation. The topic has
been addressed by evaluating the article and understanding of the each aspects that is related
with challenges and strategies associated with listening process on part of students.

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