Listening Challenges and Strategies to Improve Listening Skills in Students

This essay discusses the challenges faced by students in listening and provides strategies to improve their listening skills. It covers five listening challenges and five important strategies to improve listening skills.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Listening challenge is an inability of the listener to gain the proper details about the
contributing factors this is generally because of their limited vocabulary, background issues of
continuous noise, lack of knowledge about that topic and many more. It is important for all the
students to have good listening skills. This topic will provide the issues and the challenges which
are being faced in all the listening challenges and the reason behind all such inabilities(Pamela,
2017), This essay will cover five listening challenges and also the five important strategies which
are being taken in order to improve the listening skills of students.
MAIN BODY
It is important to have listening skills in all the students as it helps out to manage the
proper communication. As a student needs to have better skills of listening, reading, writing
and ,any more. Their is being served that there are some challenges which are being seen in all
the listening areas as some of the major issues which are seen in the listening challenges are
like, Firstly, False start and repetitions, it is when the individual who is trying to make the
communication with the student at that timer they try to interact with repetitive words. As when
the communication is being made with an false start for an instance, a student in spite of giving
the actual details about the topic is generally providing all the false and the irrelevant topic which
are of no use this use to create a issue of listening challenge. It make the student to be a bit
confused about the communication or the information which is been given to them. It creates a
confusion in the mind of student about the relevancy and the importance of topic and also make
it difficult to reframe the actual information passed(Brown, 2018).
Secondly, Abbreviations and acronyms as usually in order to save time and also to
complete the communication earlier people generally uses Abbreviations which is not
understandable for all the students. In listening it is important to have a clear and proper words to
be used which will make the student or the student to easily understand about the ideas of
working. Their is been seen that the use of all the Abbreviations and acronyms creates a big
confusion in the mind of the students as they are not being able to know about the meaning and
the full form of all such abbreviations and which made it difficult for them to connect the whole
sentence and also t listen what the teachers or the other mentors are saying. This make the

listening challenge more hard then before and also generate false information to be created in the
mind.
Thirdly, Long sentences with different and numerous items, is also a issue for the
listening challenge as long run of sentences creates a pile up of information. It is important to
create and use all the clauses and the stops as in regard to make it clear for the student about the
completion of the sentences. These long sentences make the student unaware about the
information which is being given to them and also will not able to identify the important part.
This will create a major listening challenge as if when the student gets so many numerous words
and sentences use create a difficulty in understanding all of them with complete accuracy.
Fourthly, Technical terms it includes all such terms which are difficult to manage,
pronounce and understand., when any of the important information is being given to the student
he/she can only manage to have the proper listening skills if the words used by them are easy.
The technical terms use to make the students confused as they were at times not are about all
such words and it will be difficult to spell and understand for an instance, thrombolysis as it is
quiet challenging to spell and understand all such words. This make the listening challenge to be
arises because of the use of technical words (Sherstad, 2019).
Lastly, Unnecessary words these includes all the irrelevant, immaterial and inapplicable
words which are being used by the student while communicating. This create a listening barrier
in between the student and the teacher or mentors. As they will not be able to analyse the actual
meaning of the information which is being given to the, and also create a listening challenge.
Thus, all these creates a major listening challenging for the students in their due course of
learning.
Strategies which can be used by teachers in order to help students in improvising their
listening skills are like, Firstly Take notes all the teachers should make their student to learn a
habit in which they opt to make notes on all the information which are being served to them. As
student should try to maintain key and important notes while listening to the teachers about the
guidance and the information provided. This will help the student yo recall all the important
information which is being given to them and ado make it easy to gain and listen properly
without forgetting the important information (Sahay, 2021).
Secondly, Active listening which is the most important part of all the listening challenge.
As for all the student it is important to listen to their teachers and the guides while they were

delivering any important and useful information with them. Their use to be seen that student
loose their concentration by the loud voices for their fellow friends or by not keeping the interest
which make them to create a major listening challenge so they should try to maintain all the
important methods through which the listening can be opted and the student will remain
connected. All the teachers will make the topic to be interesting so the student will actively listen
to them with full interest and will remember the relevant information (Yang, and Wu, 2018).
Thirdly, Listen for gist as it is important for all the student that if in case they are in hurry
or are not being able to understand about the information being given they should try to
remember all the core of the communication. Teachers should make their students aware that
they should always try to understand and remember the gist which means the main topic or the
main material fact of the discussion. For this they should try to make their students know about
the methods through which they can take the gist form the topic and can make the whole
communication to be understand. It use to make easy for all the student t manage and maintain
the work in easy frame.
Fourthly, Listen for details it includes that the teachers should make their students know
about the methods through which they can manage and gain interest in order to know the details
and the points which are covered by them. It is difficult to make the students engage in the
communication when the teacher are giving lectures and they are generally listening so they
should try to create an environment through which the student gain interest and listen to all the
details which are being provided by them. This will help them out to overcome all the listening
challenges and also to manage and maintain the a better listening for future.
Lastly, know the context and be prepared it considers to be the most impactful and the
helpful method. As teachers can make their student to know about the topic on which they are
going to give the lectures a day before it is being made. They should also guide them and ask
them to take the overview regarding that topic so as to maintain and having a brief idea about the
topic and its important elements. This will help to improvise the listening skills of the students
and also manage the work to be done in better way (Avendaño-Garro, 2021). The student there
by not going to face any kind of listening challenge and can easily opt and manage the work
through which all requirement scan be framed. Students when are aware about the topic will take
the interest and also will not face any kind of listening challenges.

Thus, all these will help out to manage and remove the listening challenges from the
students.
CONCLUSION
From this above essay it is concluded that listening challenge is the difficulty which is
mostly been seen in the students as when they were not being able to understand the whole topic.
This usually being created by the long sentences which are used by the teachers or any person.
Repetitive words which are being used as that creates a confusion and also Abbreviations and
acronyms which are confusing for so many students and make them face the listening challenge.
Further more it is also concluded that strategies which can be used by the teachers in order to
remove the listening challenges are like, active listening, take notes, listen for gist and many
more.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Brown, R.M., 2018. Muttering and Listening.
Sherstad, P.S., 2019. Exploring the Higher Education Listening Experiences of Generation Z
(Doctoral dissertation, Regent University).
Pamela, H., 2017. Unlocking Speaking and Listening: Developing Spoken Language in the
Primary Classroom.
Yang, L. and Wu, Z., 2018. Designing Listening Tests: A Practical Approach, by R. Green,
Reviewed by: Yang, L & Wu, Z., London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 210 pp.,
$99.99, ISBN: 978-1-137-45715-8 (hardback).
Sahay, S., 2021. ORGANIZATIONAL LISTENING DURING ORGANIZATIONAL
CHANGE: PERSPECTIVES OF EMPLOYEES AND EXECUTIVES. International
Journal of Listening, pp.1-14.
Avendaño-Garro, K., 2021. Listening to Interstitial Identity in Contemporary Japanese
Narrative (Doctoral dissertation, The University of Wisconsin-Madison).