Study Skills for Higher Education: Listening Challenges and Strategies

Study Skills for Higher
Education

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Discuss five of the listening challenges that a student faces in an academic context............3
Suggest five strategies teacher can use to help students to improve their listening skills......4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Higher education is the further improvement of abilities which is being sought after the
finishing of secondary school and this training will in general contribute towards the honour of
coursework degree. Here, higher education depicts any type of learning which is being given to
learners in the auxiliary instructive establishments like schools, colleges and specialized
organizations and some more (Sánchez-Martí and et. al., 2018). It incorporates a few different
fields like law, business, medication, music, workmanship, culture, brain science and a lot more
for the development and improvement of learner's vocation. It incorporates the variety of abilities
which is useful for learners for the fulfilment of their certification programs and furthermore
supportive at the working environment. Further, the point is to successfully perceive the
significance of listening abilities, hardships which is looked by learners and noticeable
methodologies in regards to the upgrade of listening abilities.
MAIN BODY
Discuss five of the listening challenges that a student faces in an academic context
Listening is a skill to identify and understand what others are saying and it’s a key to
effective verbal communication but there is numerous barrier to precisely acquire this skill which
are often neglected by the listeners.
There are some of the challenges that are faced by student and may affect the present
understanding of students. Such as it includes:
False starts and repetitions: It is one of the most common challenges that may arise
when conversation may become intense. It includes lot of repetition while speaking may lead to
listeners getting distracted from the main point of the speaker. It may lead to difficulty in
focussing on just one aspect (Raeisoon and et. al., 2018). This situation mainly occurs when
speaker may start with a question abruptly end the question and then start all over again. In this
the context of statement and question may be similar that may lead to difficulty in the process of
evaluating the main point of speaker. When there are false start or lot of repetition then it may
lead to lot of issues in the process of getting proper inferences of the speaker.
Long sentences with items like clause and run on sentences: Run on Sentences is
related with two or more complete sentence that are connected without any type of punctuation.
While speaking there are instances where the speaker may keep speaking without having use of

STUDY SKILLS FOR
HIGHER EDUCATION

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Five listening challenge...............................................................................................................1
Suggest strategies that teachers adopts to help students in improve their listening skills..........2
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Listening is very essential concept within higher studies because it helps in attaining and
completing the assignments very effectively and perfectly. Effective listening is a part of success
of higher studies. This essay report present the challenges that students face in listening due to
which they does not studied properly (Richards and Pilcher, 2020). Further it also involves the
suggestion for teachers to improve the listening ability of students so that students achieve higher
success within their higher studied.
MAIN BODY
Analysis and Discussion
There are various difficulties that student would face in understanding the lecture,
conversation, talk, conversation (Prepare English language students for academic listening,
2021). Listening is very critical skill because without listening a student cannot gain success
within corporate or personal field. Listening is very crucial because if a student have good
listening skill that he/she is able to interpret in what people saying in various academic
situations. Hence, there are several difficulties that individual would face when they does not
listen the ideas, lecture, conversation properly. It is crucial for students to understand the content
of lecture at the speed it is delivered to them from the lecturer side because it positively
contributes on developing group projects, informal social interactions etc. From the article
various listening challenges are demonstrated below that negatively stroke the individual person
personality within university:
The major challenge under the listening skill is long sentences. Due to which students
does not understand and capture the real meaning of sentences that creates misunderstanding.
Therefore, framing long sentences with the use of lots of items by involving run on sentences
with various clauses that piles with the layers of information. Due to this student face difficulty
with the content of lecture and does not able to record for further use in future.
The another listening challenge is the use of unnecessary words such as use of “So If, If
so etc. In this If within the university, teacher use the unnecessary words while teaching the
students than it impact negatively on the students listening ability (Williams and et. al., 2020). In
this teacher emphasis on clarify the sentences which they frame with unnecessary words so that
learners would effectively understand the summary of content effectively and efficiently.
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STUDY SKILLS FOR
HIGHER EDUCATION

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Five listening challenge...............................................................................................................1
Suggest strategies that teachers adopts to help students in improve their listening skills..........2
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Listening is very essential concept within higher studies because it helps in attaining and
completing the assignments very effectively and perfectly. Effective listening is a part of success
of higher studies. This essay report present the challenges that students face in listening due to
which they does not studied properly (Richards and Pilcher, 2020). Further it also involves the
suggestion for teachers to improve the listening ability of students so that students achieve higher
success within their higher studied.
MAIN BODY
Analysis and Discussion
There are various difficulties that student would face in understanding the lecture,
conversation, talk, conversation (Prepare English language students for academic listening,
2021). Listening is very critical skill because without listening a student cannot gain success
within corporate or personal field. Listening is very crucial because if a student have good
listening skill that he/she is able to interpret in what people saying in various academic
situations. Hence, there are several difficulties that individual would face when they does not
listen the ideas, lecture, conversation properly. It is crucial for students to understand the content
of lecture at the speed it is delivered to them from the lecturer side because it positively
contributes on developing group projects, informal social interactions etc. From the article
various listening challenges are demonstrated below that negatively stroke the individual person
personality within university:
The major challenge under the listening skill is long sentences. Due to which students
does not understand and capture the real meaning of sentences that creates misunderstanding.
Therefore, framing long sentences with the use of lots of items by involving run on sentences
with various clauses that piles with the layers of information. Due to this student face difficulty
with the content of lecture and does not able to record for further use in future.
The another listening challenge is the use of unnecessary words such as use of “So If, If
so etc. In this If within the university, teacher use the unnecessary words while teaching the
students than it impact negatively on the students listening ability (Williams and et. al., 2020). In
this teacher emphasis on clarify the sentences which they frame with unnecessary words so that
learners would effectively understand the summary of content effectively and efficiently.
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