Study Skills for Higher Education

Study Skills for Higher
Education

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................1
Assessment One...............................................................................................................................1
Discuss three of the listening challenges that a student face in an academic context............1
Suggest three strategies teacher can use to help students to improve their listening skills....2
Describe some listening challenges you have experienced and the strategies that have helped
you become a better listener...................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................3
Assessment Two..............................................................................................................................4
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Identify six skills that students require to be successful at university and discuss why these
skills are important at workplace............................................................................................4
Provide six recommendation that could help students improve the content of their CVs.....7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References:.......................................................................................................................................9
Books and Journals.................................................................................................................9

Introduction
Higher education refers to the study conducted by a student after completion of a secondary
education which is a third level or tertiary education contributing towards an awards of academic
degree. Higher education is any kind of learning given to the students in post-secondary
educational institutes which can be a private or public university, colleges, and professional
institutes that grants a students, diploma, certificate or degree of higher studies. There are several
field in which a student can purse his career in such as medicine, law, business, music, art,
culture, history, geology, psychology, criminology etc. There are several set of skills that assist
the students in completing their degree programmes and also serves at workplace too (Al-Kurdi,
El-Haddadeh and Eldabi, 2020). Further report conducted with the aim of understanding the
importance of listening skills, challenges faced by students and strategies to improve listening
abilities.
Main Body
Assessment One
Discuss three of the listening challenges that a student face in an academic context
Listening skills in academics plays ca crucial role in the overall learning of an individual as
the students need to take down the notes from academic lectures delivered by the professor.
Listening skills determine the ability of student to what extent he/she can interpret the message
and develop understanding on what is being said or communicated to them. However there are
set of challenges faced by a students that act as a barrier to their effective listening abilities
which are described below:
 Unnecessary words: While communicating there are certain words or phrase that is
frequently used by the communicator that is one of the most common barrier in listening
skills of students as these frequent words ambiguity in the message thus become difficult
to interpret (Trenkic and Warmington, 2019). For instance, so if I would like to start, isn’t
it?, what if I say or if I say.. use of these words in frequency sometimes change the
meaning of a sentence thus impede the students to encode the message.
 Long sequence of sentence containing multiple items: Another challenges faced by the
students in effective listening is long sequence of sentence containing multiple
information which makes the message more complex and ambiguous. These long
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sequence of sentence take the listener away from the actual message and brings
confusion. For instance, pandemic have caused a several deaths across globe, out of
which few people were already ill and some were affected by COVID, one of the reason
for their death was poor dietary habits and lack of exercise; due to which there is havoc
everywhere (Barone and Assirelli, 2020).
 Technical terms: While delivering a lecture, sometimes there are few words, students are
not familiar with which makes them difficult in listening and interpreting the actual
message. While taking notes from presentation, guest lectures, or webinars students find
it difficult to recognise the difficult words or jargon used by the experts of relevant field.
These words are usually difficult to pronounce, spell, hear and understand as these words
are used barely and related to a particular fields such as Laissez faire, thrombolysis, etc.
Suggest three strategies teacher can use to help students to improve their listening skills
Above mentioned challenges can act as a barrier to the effective listening ability of the students,
therefore it is imperative for teacher to adopt numerous tool and techniques that keep the student
attentive, interested and engaged in a class while delivering a lecture or at the time of webinars
or presentations (Tian and Liu, 2019).
Strategies to improve the listening abilities
 Use of hand gestures: One of the effective strategy to keep the students focused and
engaged to what is being delivered, hand gestures or non-verbal techniques works well as
these hand gestures help the students to encode the message correctly and understand it
with clarity.
 Utilization of technology: Another interesting way that helps in enhancing the listening
skills of students is use of technology. While delivering a lecture or a session teachers can
take the help of technology which keep the students attentive and provide them an
interactive learning. On the other hand, teachers can prepare a brief notes of the lecture
including difficult concepts and meanings of words, these notes can be played
simultaneously while delivering a lecture for the ease of students.
 Seeking question and recall: Students sometimes ignores the concept that is not
understood by them that affect their overall learning abilities (D’Alessio, Avolio and
Charles, 2019). In order to make the lecture more interesting and interactive, teachers can
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