Challenges and Strategies for Improving Listening Skills in Higher Education

PART ONE

Discuss five of the listening challenges mentioned in the article above.
There are different set of challenges mentioned in the article above, the set of challenges explains
the bag is in obstacles faced in the listening skills. Where different individuals have different
speed of delivery, accent and other aspects that make their communication and listening skills
different. In order to rightly address of what people orally communicates, it is important that an
individual ascertain effective listening skills. Too many interruptions in the listening skill
distracts the motive of message and make Ways For misinterpretation. As mentioned in the
above article, the challenges discussed are as:
False start and repetition: false start and the repetition of words can be also one challenge that
breaks down the effectiveness of listening skills. False start occurs due to many reasons Such as
When conversation becomes too intense with in-depth information, when there are many
speakers involved in the communication, when any speaker while speaking is interrupted in
between or when Speaker by mistake forget certain points in the conversation. When a sender of
the message starts a communication with above mentioned pointers does there are chances that
the sender breaks down the further communication ahead. When there is a false Start in The very
beginning of the conversation then it might lead to misinterpretation of the communicators
message. Further when listener, here is the message of the receiver he or she might interpret
something different and break the communication flow (Assiter, 2017).
Using technical terms
Using technical jargons is One of the major reasons and values of listening skills. Where in the
listener don’t understand the real motive or misinterprets there actual communication message.
Using technical terminologies also gets to professional, where the listener might also hesitate to
communicate further and also makes him or her this interested towards making further
communication. The sender of the message should always try to use simple words which is
easily understood by each and everyone. Avoiding technical terms is the best remedy measure in
order to reduce listening skills challenges (Muller, 2015).
Unnecessary words

The words are such words that is not required in a sentence. Using unnecessary words and
terminologies might lead to misinterpretation of the communicating thoughts. Necessary word
might further lead to lack of interest to the receivers as unnecessary words makes the
communication more tedious. This in order to have a effective communication and reduce
challenges over the listening skills, the sender of the message must always use precise and short
Sentences so that it is easier for the listener to grab the right information.
Long sequences with number of items that includes run on sentences of multiple clauses
When the sender of the message uses very long sentences, sequences which includes number of
items and in-depth information often lead to facing challenges over the listening skills . Long
sequence of different items add on too many information at a particular point where in the
listener might also get confused and forget to remember all the points at a time. Thus it is always
advisable to use such sentences to convey the message which contains only fewer points and
precise enough so that the listener is able to rightly analyse The communicational message (Soto
and et.al., 2020).
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Abbreviations and acronyms can be termed as the short Forms of different words and reasons.
When a listener is using too many abbreviations or acronyms in a specific sentence it Results to
challenges over listening skills where the listener is unable to understand the short form and
makes him or her very complex and difficult to understand the motive of communicational
message.
Suggest five strategies teachers can use to help students improve their listening skills.
The five strategies the teachers can use in order to enhance the listening skills of the students;
these are discussed below in brief:
Introducing cold calling
Cold calling means wear in the students don’t need to raise of hands, teachers can specifically
choose any student respond to the questions and explain the overall concept taught by the
teacher. Make students clearly listen and understand each and everything so that there are able to
answer all the queries raised by the teachers (Suleman, 2018).