Listening Skills in an Academic Context

Listening skills in an
academic context

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Discuss three of the listening challenges that a student face in an academic context.................3
Suggest three strategies teacher can use to help students to improve their listening skills.........4
Describe some listening challenges you have experienced and the strategies that have helped
you become a better listener........................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Higher education is the research that a student pursues after completing high school, and it is
a third level or tertiary education that contributes to the award of an academic degree. Higher
education refers to any form of learning provided to students in post-secondary educational
institutions such as universities, schools, and technical institutes that award students a diploma,
certificate, or degree in higher studies (Al-Kurdi, El-Haddadeh and Eldabi, 2020). Medicine, law,
business, music, art, culture, history, geology, psychology, and criminology are only a few of the
fields in which a student can pursue a career. There are a variety of skills that help students
complete their degree programmes and are also useful in the workplace. A second study was
written with the aim of better recognising the value of listening skills, the difficulties that
students face, and strategies for improving listening skills.
MAIN BODY
Discuss three of the listening challenges that a student face in an academic context
Academic listening skills are critical for an individual’s overall learning because students
must take notes from professor-led academic lectures. The ability of a student to perceive a
message and gain comprehension of what is being said or conveyed to them is determined by his
or her listening skills (Castro, 2019). However, there are a number of obstacles that a student
faces that serve as a barrier to successful listening skills, as detailed below:
Unnecessary words: While speaking, there are certain words or phrases that the
communicator often uses, which is one of the most common barriers in students' listening skills
because these frequently used words create ambiguity in the message, making it difficult to
understand. For example, if I would like to begin, isn’t it? what if I say, or if I say, the frequent
use of these terms can alter the meaning of a sentence, making it difficult for students to decode
the message.
Long sentences with multiple items: Another difficulty student face in successful
listening is a long series of sentences with multiple items, which makes the message more
complicated and vaguer. These long sentence sequences distract the listener from the main
message and cause confusion. For example, pandemics have resulted in a number of deaths
around the world, some of whom were already sick and others who were infected with COVID;