Challenges and Strategies for Improving Listening Skills in Higher Education

This article discusses the challenges faced in listening skills in higher education and suggests five strategies that teachers can use to improve students' listening skills. The challenges include false starts, technical terms, unnecessary words, long sequences, and abbreviations. The strategies include introducing cold calling, effective communication, getting to know students, creating simple commands, listening more and talking less, and giving students listening tasks.

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).

Effective communication
Effective communication effective communication is on the most important thing which greatly
helps in order to hasten communication and bridge the gap between the teachers And the
students. When we talk about effective communication that means using a precise, and simple
language that is easily and very conveniently understood by each and every student in the
classroom. Where is the teacher must avoid using any such technical jargon that would distract
the objectivity of the communication and helps to establish listening skills.
Get to know your students
Teachers in universities should also ensure that they are able to maintain a close relationship
with the teachers in order to hasten communication and establish effective listening skills. The
teacher should know about their lives, hobbies, interests and goals where students feel connected
and more interest towards listening of water stored by the teachers. Getting to know the students
relationship where in they take more interest For listening to the sessions of what is being taught
by the teachers. It further also helps to understand that what can be the supported strategies and
plan lesson add activities accordingly (Tang, 2019).
Create simple commands
Teacher should use tactics in order to use simple commands to guide and brief the students.
Using simple commands a faction of students have to do good help to give one direction at a
time and deliver clear. Giving simple commands such as offering them One Direction at one
time, waiting for everyone to follow and ensure not to repeat yourself. It is important that
teachers pause frequently whenever needed, and address the purpose of communicating So that
students are rightly able to understand Of what is being taught.
Listen more talk less
Active listening is a key important skill for students. Students need to enhance their listening
skills so that they’re able to grab important and delivered information and comprehend
them. Listening more talking less is important so that students are able to grasp as much as
information and understand the real motive of communicational message (Yeh and et.al., 2021).
Give students listening task.

The teachers in University should conduct such activity that promotes listening activities. In
order to analyse that how good the students are when it comes to listening skills. Analysing the
listening skills and then formulating suitable strategies that would support to accelerate listening
activities in the class. Other way of stimulating and motivating active listening among the
student is by giving a listening task. The teacher should use this tactic by pairing of students in
practice listening skills. In the listening task students should be Teachers can discuss different
facts and figures and then asking them how will they understand. Where students can be given
turns for talking every time and teachers can observe all the conversations. Getting the students
learning task would help greatly as they will be able to involve themselves into activities and
different task they are able to read and reiterate Of what is being taught. Students need to have
opportunities where are able to restrain themselves from speaking and keep attention on
listening. Teachers can use strategies such as students grouping students and speaking ones at the
time, Ask other students listen carefully and avoiding instances that other people talk when a
person speak. Discussions sentence starters can also be a helping team for the students in order to
learn new ways for initiating a conversation. Creating questions and having our students write
questions about what is the third also help students to enhance their listening skills. When
teachers would frequently asked the questions with the students they would actively listen for
any confusion and put their higher level of concentration. Teachers should make sure that they
are not repeating themselves in the class as it would further make the students very lazy and they
would feel listening unnecessary.
CONCLUSION
The above discussion she talks about that how listening skills important to a student. Listening
skills are important to accomplish can you object is as it helps to rightly address the expectation,
standards and requirements addressed by the sender, Most importantly it helps to Understand the
real objective of the can you do shall message that is conveyed by the sender. This report talks
about the challenges faced listening skills and the supported strategy that teachers could use in
order to overcome the challenges of listening skills.

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