Study Skills for Higher Education: Challenges and Strategies

Study Skills for Higher
Education
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Five main listening challenges....................................................................................................3
Five main strategies to overcome the challenges........................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References .......................................................................................................................................7
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Introduction
Listening skills is the ability to receive message accurately and interpret the same in
communication process. In today's world students need to make a good listening skills for
interpret the different communication process in different academic situations. There are
different situations that can be improved through listening challenges. Presentation,
communication in the class, seminars and discussions all are needed good listening skills. But
most of the time students are facing issues in developing listening skills (Milliner and Dimoski,
2021). This report include the five main listening challenges and strategies for the students to
improve their listening skills. This will be helpful for the students to gain considerable amount of
knowledge in oral settings.
Main Body
Five main listening challenges
Listening is the ability that helps in identifying and understanding the process for what
the people are saying about. There are different linguistic challenges that may include different
type of barriers within the development process of listening skills. There are some of listening
challenges that are faced by student that may creates major misinterpretation to communicate by
audience. Most of the people think that these challenges occur in each and every communication
process but this is not true, as barriers in listening are occur only in some communication
channels. Some of the challenges are explained below:
False start, is a major issue for students while learning languages. There are so many
ways to communicate and listen by using a common language such as English (Smith., 2020). If
there is high proficiency of language that students cannot interpret, it creates obstacles for
gaining what the speaker wants to describe. There is one issue Accent of speaker not proper, then
it would difficult for an audience (Students) to listen and gain learning aspects. This challenge
may create the negativity and wrong impression on the audience.
Unnecessary words, this is the process that deals and occur for the kind of seminar or
lecture, if the speaker used inappropriate words, then the purpose of listening or learning is not
fulfilled properly. By using small and easy words that connect the audience with speaker unless
it would not generate proper coordination with audience. This challenge is related to make
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Contents
INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY............................................................................................................................................3
Listening challenges...........................................................................................................................3
Strategies through which teachers can improve the listening skills of students................................4
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
This report focuses on the challenges faced by students during lectures in session
which are specific to listening. It pertains every challenge in detail with the right strategy to
improve for them. It highlights the factors that are responsible for these challenges too which
needs to be changed if they need to overcome those and make way for success and follow the
path to excellence.
MAIN BODY
Listening challenges
Predicting Content-
Many of the times it happens that people sees a situation and when they don’t
understand what the other person is talking about then they start on to predicting content
depending on the content they hear. It all depends on the words used by speaker and style of
language used by it. Knowledge of the world possessed by individual helps them to predict
the form of information they want to listen to. This knowledge can be pertained from
anywhere such as from a lecture or a news channel etc. during the lecture that knowledge is
activated and act as a channel for that person to focus and understand things. This prediction
leads to difficulties in areas such as grammatical errors or poor of language due to which one
cannot communicate with effective use of decent language and create an impression that will
last long. Even if the thing is small as understanding or learning the abbreviations they will
do it in wrong manner. There are a lot of technical terms that are involved in literature which
creates confusion if not seen only listened such as thrombolysis etc.
Listening for gist-
Listening is a challenge when compared with seeing and observing things. As many
people get the whole picture but even one misconception can make a huge difference to the
information worked and build up in sequence. Even after that there is another challenge that
is content words such as verbs, adjectives and nouns which must also be good to understand
it. This is known as listening for gist. For instance words such as food, fun, park have their
stands but when they are used together it creates problem as they can change the whole
concept in the mind of individual. This all happens because many words are dependent on
prepositions and they portray meanings that are specific and relational this leads to confusion
and challenge in the area of listening and understanding things (Hyseni Duraku and Hoxha,
2018).

STUDY SKILLS FOR HIGHER
EDUCATION

Contents
INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.......................................................................................................................................3
Listening challenges..........................................................................................................................3
Strategies through which teachers can improve the listening skills of students.................................4
CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES....................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
This report focuses on the challenges faced by students during lectures in session
which are specific to listening. It pertains every challenge in detail with the right strategy to
improve for them. It highlights the factors that are responsible for these challenges too which
needs to be changed if they need to overcome those and make way for success and follow the
path to excellence.
MAIN BODY
Listening challenges
Predicting Content-
Many of the times it happens that people sees a situation and when they don’t
understand what the other person is talking about then they start on to predicting content
depending on the content they hear. It all depends on the words used by speaker and style of
language used by it. Knowledge of the world possessed by individual helps them to predict
the form of information they want to listen to. This knowledge can be pertained from
anywhere such as from a lecture or a news channel etc. during the lecture that knowledge is
activated and act as a channel for that person to focus and understand things. This prediction
leads to difficulties in areas such as grammatical errors or poor of language due to which one
cannot communicate with effective use of decent language and create an impression that will
last long. Even if the thing is small as understanding or learning the abbreviations they will
do it in wrong manner. There are a lot of technical terms that are involved in literature which
creates confusion if not seen only listened such as thrombolysis etc.
Listening for gist-
Listening is a challenge when compared with seeing and observing things. As many
people get the whole picture but even one misconception can make a huge difference to the
information worked and build up in sequence. Even after that there is another challenge that
is content words such as verbs, adjectives and nouns which must also be good to understand
it. This is known as listening for gist. For instance words such as food, fun, park have their
stands but when they are used together it creates problem as they can change the whole
concept in the mind of individual. This all happens because many words are dependent on
prepositions and they portray meanings that are specific and relational this leads to confusion
and challenge in the area of listening and understanding things (Hyseni Duraku and Hoxha,
2018).