Study Skills for Higher Education: Listening Challenges and Strategies

This article discusses the challenges faced by students in higher education while listening and suggests strategies to improve their listening skills. It also highlights personal experiences and strategies to become a better listener. The article covers topics like the importance of preparation, collecting data from authentic sources, using proper language and words, removal of unnecessary words, and using proper punctuation.

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

any type of punctuation marks in between that may result into lot of confusion in the minds of
listener where they might not be able to relate to the actual meaning that is required to be
conveyed by the speaker.
Abbreviations and acronym: It is related with the use of lot of abbreviation that is in
contracted or short form of phrase or word that may result into difficulty in understanding of the
main lecture content. Acronym are the new words that may result into confusion in the minds of
speaker (Keevy, 2020). Speakers in some instances are using lot of abbreviations that leads to no
proper evaluation of the way it will reflect the main intention of the speaker.
Lecture content: Listeners hear completely underestimate the speaker without
recognizing what is possibly not known by them about the situation and experience of other
person. The content of lecture may be too focussed on the basic concept which speaker wants to
focus on and not as per the level of understanding of the listener. It may lead to gaps in the
overall perception of the speaker and listener at a point of time. So, the overall content of the
lecture have to be formulated and structured in such a way that there is proper understanding and
evaluation of the overall intention of the speaker.
visual challenges: There are some of the situation when the listener may face some of
visual challenges or difficulties in the process of developing detail understanding of the overall
information (Siburian, Corebima and SAPTASARI, 2019). Some of the listener might be facing
difficulties where they are not able to process the information because of no proper vision
development and problem in the process of perceiving the visuals, images, graphics. Sometimes
teachers are suing some digital option like videos, presentation for the purpose of teaching some
specific topics that require digital interaction.
Suggest five strategies teacher can use to help students to improve their listening skills
By considering the preceding discussion and the barriers that can hinder the overall
performance of students and also listen prominently which is complex for the teachers in terms
of using the wide variety of techniques in terms of keeping students informed and engaged in the
class while delivering the presentation or lecturers. Put emphasis on the preparation: It is recommended that the students tend to focus on
the preparation on the other factors that undertake the feedback and other factors at the
same time at the time of organising the written project. It is also important for the
students to have proper preparation at the time of performing the project (Tantoy and

Gemota Jr, 2018). Here, the presentation is useful in successful manner to carry out actin
in written manner. Here, the high quality preparation is useful to enhance the overall
quality of the written project. Collect data from the authentic sources: It is suggested to the students to have proper
collection of data from the relevant sources. It is helpful for students to improve their
overall quality of their written projects. The suitable and correct details tend to improve
the trust and the capability which is being offered in the written project. In regard of this,
the overall quality of project is enhanced and also useful for the students to represent the
details in written and successful manner. Use proper language and words: It is important that the students need to undertake the
effective use of words in correct manner at the time of making their assignment. In regard
of this, it has been suggested that the students also need to consider the wordings in
significant manner as per the need of project (Fitriati, Marlaini and Elizar, 2021). For
this, the students are capable to perform the practices in an essential manner and achieve
things in desired manner with defined objectives. For this, prominent words and
languages are written which are required to improve the quality of performance and also
help others to understand things in right manner. Removal of Unnecessary words: In order to enhance listening capacity it is essential for
an individual to remove unnecessary words from the project so that it can be protected
from being lengthy and is understandable in effective manner. Proper words should be
used that are necessary for the language as a necessary words used in the assignment will
change the meaning of sentence completely and will also affect the listening abilities.
Teacher should use removal of unnecessary words from the language with the help of
which they can be able to improve listening skills of their students.
 Use of proper Punctuation in the language - Punctuation helps an individual in
providing suitable breaks the short or long in the sentence which can change the complete
meaning of a language. In order to enhance listening skills that teachers are required to
guide their students to use proper and effective punctuations in their sentences so that it
does not changes the meaning of the sentence.

Describe some listening challenges you have experienced and the strategies that have helped you
become a better listener
During the Higher education, my listening abilities were very poor and because of this, I
could not give appropriate consideration inside the class and furthermore miss the fundamental
data. There were additionally some specialized factors and terms which are being utilized by the
instructor and I was similarly curious about me that make things hard for me to comprehend as
the thing is being said by the educator in class. Apart from this, the vernacular language, syntax
and attitude of the discourse which was made by me is hard for me itself to translate the entire
message and furthermore passed on things to me.
Despite from this, to improve my learning capacities, I began extending my jargon and for
that I accept which is basic for appreciating what is being realized inside the class. I additionally
attempted to keep up with things in the open mid and furthermore when I went to the learning.
Further, I similarly get pre-considered thoughts in regards to the speaker hampered over the
capacity of individual and furthermore need to tune in and gain proficiency with a few things.
Since the students do not invite the perspective of others which depends on the assumptions, it is
desirable over become non-judgemental and objective at the hour of going to meeting.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it has been analysed that examining is one of the basic capacity
that should be written during the understudy. It is the ability of learner who should be steady and
furthermore need to accomplish higher grades also to accomplish their ideal results. For this,
reading is the constant activity for the individual and in the growth of fostering the solid and
powerful understanding potential, the individual can gather suitable importance and the pages
written in the words in the given timeframe. For this, it is basic for the learners to improve the
general nature of the composed undertakings as it will help in acquiring better grades. There are
a few undertakings that ought to be performed by the learner to upgrade their general nature of
the composed task and furthermore support the overall performance of learners.

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