Study Skills for Higher Education

Study Skills for Higher
Education

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Listening challenges....................................................................................................................3
Three strategies for improving listening skills............................................................................3
Listening challenges and the strategies of improvement from student perspective....................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Active listening refers to listening actively and openly and understanding the concept in the
same manner in which it is being presented and explained (Friston and et.al., 2021). This report
will discuss about the various challenges regarding the active listening along with teacher’s
moves with respect to overcoming those challenges. Likewise, student’s perspective with regard
to challenges and their own moves against those challenges is also discussed in this report.
MAIN BODY
Listening challenges
The major listening challenges are:
Linguistic challenge:
It is one of the major challenge associated with the listening skill. Language act as a
barrier when it contains such words and sentences which is not understandable by the listener.
Linguistic challenge includes the use of wrong grammar, improper words, difficult words, false
starts, repetitions, unnecessary words, and various other. Use of technical terms and language
may also create barrier and challenge for the listener in terms of difficult understanding and
wrong understanding. Using of abbreviations, acronyms, phrases may also act as a challenge in
terms of non-understanding and as a result poor listening.
Cultural challenge:
It will also act as a challenge because due to cultural difference students may not be able
to understand and interpret the exact meaning of the sentences and the concepts which is being
taught by their tutor. Cultural difference may also occur in the form of the perceptions and
beliefs that in different culture different concept may have different meaning. It also includes
speaker’s ascent, vocabulary and assumptions about the information and the conversation.
Presentation challenge:
Presentation of slides sometime instead of raising the awareness and knowledge may lead
to challenge and barrier with respect to the active listening. This means that the knowledge and
message share on presentation is also a barrier with regard to the active listening. This is because
students may not able to understand the meaning of the message in the terms in which they need
to and lead to low understanding which will ultimately lead to poor listening. It is counted under