Study Skills For Higher Education: Challenges and Solutions for Active Listening

Study Skills For
Higher Education

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Discuss crucial challenges loaded with students in listening skill at the university....................1
Discuss how students can evolve active listening abilities..........................................................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Listening is a soft skills which refers to allowing people or individual to understand the
information that other conveys to them. Listening is a part of communication skills that brings
forth the speaking skills, that is also known as verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
For having an efficient and impacting communication within the group or the individuals, it is
very crucial to hear to people carefully what they are wanting to communicate or say. This report
mainly includes the challenges and objections faced by the students while listening to their
respective educators and organisational faculties. Students usually loses focus and concentration
with presence of mind in between their lectures, these are the factors disturbs their study
progress. So to get better of these challenges, different aspects and crucial measures are also
obturated in the report (Amira and et. al, 2019). This would foster the students to develop and
change and mend their learning skills.
MAIN BODY
Discuss crucial challenges loaded with students in listening skill at the university
 Accent: Accent refers to way of pronunciation of a specific word or language particularly
to a speaker or a cluster of masses or speakers. Accent varies from country to country of
speaking the same language. People usually uses English language to communicate but
their accent differs from the original ones. This might be possible that the other person
will lack behind because of the accent that they have and use. It is always difficult for
different nations to acquire others language and accent for instance the Americans and
the Indians have different accents and that is very prominent as anyone can easily
identify that they are outsiders and are facing problems in understanding of the language.
The listeners usually learns from the speakers. So the words and the language used by the
educators in the institution should be easy and it should be decent to have an effective
impact on the student's learning and their growth by having and efficient communication
(Baratta, 2018). The students of other nations usually faces challenges when they leave
their indigenous nation.
 Remembering subject matter and information: The students usually loses interest
because of lack of presence of mind and they feel boring in listening to lectures. The flow
of learning and further communication breaks and this hinders the educator's capability to
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