Study Skills for Higher Education: Listening Challenges and Strategies for Improvement

This report discusses challenges in listening skills and strategies to improve them in higher education. It covers five listening challenges and five strategies teachers can use to help students improve their listening skills.

Study skills for higher
education

Table of Contents
Study skills for higher education.....................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Discuss five of the listening challenges.......................................................................................3
Five strategies teachers can use help the students to improve their listening skills....................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
As everyone knows that good study skills can get enhance the confidence as well as
competence and self esteem. As well as this can also get reduce the anxiety about the tests as
well as deadlines. With study skill, a person can improve their learning as well as knowledge.
Good study helps a person to feel their work and also motivate them to improve their work.
Study skills helps a person to retain information in effective ways and organise information in
order to improve their knowledge. Study skills are important for growth and development of a
person which provide them various career opportunity and also allow them to complete high
education effectively (Aboramadan and et., al2020). This project report discussed about
challenges occur in process of listening. It also includes analysation of various strategies adopted
by teachers to improve listening skills of a person.
MAIN BODY
Discuss five of the listening challenges
As listening skills refers to ability of an individual to get accurately receive as well as
interpret messages within communication process. Listening skills is one of important skills in
process of communication which helps a person to understand information share by others.
Apart from this, challenges of listening skills is sometimes get difficult as well as exhausting, but
this is absolutely get required and there will be also tremendous benefits for the everyone. Now
below there will be discussion is about the five listening challenges will be further get discussed.
False start and repetition- The false start is not as common as the repetitions as well as
corrections. This will sometimes get occurs when the conversation will get become an intense
thing, with many of the speakers will get speaking at once in a time as well as speaker will also
get interrupted. They can also get occurs when the speaker will get excited and get started to
begin to get skip from the one topic to another topics (Álvarez-Huerta, Muela and Larrea,
2021).Apart from this, the straight repetition is an effective listening as well as the simplified
versions within the brief, as well as repetition of the input as well as enhancing the various
techniques that will get makes the target that will be input salient, supporting as well as noticing

the hypothesis and get might will get enhance the listening comprehension as well as several
techniques.
Unnecessary words- as the unnecessary word is the greatest challenges of the Listening
skills. If any of the individual will be using the Unnecessary word while giving the speech, this
will get provide a bad impact on listeners due to this reason they are also unbale to get
understand what the speakers wanted to say, this will be not well- clarified that what the speaker
will get want to say the crowd. Apart from this, it will be more difficult to get understand deeper
meaning of the utterance of they will do not know how the different word will be get come
together as well as if they will get over lap and the considerably, they are identical as well as
overlap the considerably as will get fish them out by the help of recording, that what should be
get capable to get understand the given word (Bensel and Coffey, 2021)
Long sequences- The long sequencing is the skills that have been get used when they can
break down every event within the simple steps that will get put those steps within the order.
Long sequence of sentence does not allow user to take interest in understanding of information
or message share by sender and as a result, listener avoid information which create barrier in
listening process.
Technical terms difficult to understand- Some of the time the technical terms will be get
really difficult to understand for the evaluation and get scrutinise what is get being said. The
Technical listening skills is related from the much more active behaviour than the informational
listening as well as get usually get informed the problem-solving skills and technical terms will
get difficult to get understand. As well as the informational listening that may get be mostly the
concerned with the receiving facts as well as new informational listening that may be mostly get
concerned with receiving the facts as well as get analysing the various opinions and making the
judgements (Calma, 2021).
Complex structure of noun and pronoun- The main problem is get seems to be the word that is
the complex within the situation that does not get means to get complicated as long or
impressive. This will be the common misconception that will lead to the students sentences that
will be grammatically incorrect and really difficult to get understand. as for example- there will
be the very typical sentences from the essay that will be get trying to be overly complex
sometimes to get understand (Jugănaru and Moraru, 2020).

Five strategies teachers can use help the students to improve their listening skills
When this will come to teaching to the effective listening skills, this is not much about the
ears as this is about to being observant. The ‘’ listen is the single word with the such big of the
implications. The good listeners will get receive the information and its processes; this will
provide the several feedbacks as well as clarity to the Listening skills. Now the further discussion
is about the five strategies that can use help the students to improve its listening skills.
Say it once- repeating information within classroom can develop lazy skills of learning if
the students are customized to hearing the instruction twice in a day. listening the first time will
become get around the unnecessary things. At the beginning of the year by get establishing they
are the teachers who get rarely will get repeats the instructions and this will sure will get perk up
the ears (Herrera-Bernal, and et., al2020)
Turn and Talk- this will also the way to get inspire the active listening skills within the
students that will be to give them a several task of the Listening. Turn and talk is one of
important strategies adopted by students in order to improve listening skills of students. In this,
teachers made eyer contact while communicating with students and look at students in order to
improve their listening process. It also allow teachers to get feedback from students whether they
understand what teachers wants to describe them.
Student hand signals- Teachers should also ask students to listen and pay attention toward
information shared by them. So what they will get follow their non-verbal signals to be the
wonderful tools for get sharping the process of the listening skills. This can be look like that
student will be get going to read their former presidents’ statements that what they will be going
to get read the statements about what they get believes as well as war is sometimes get necessary
to be get finished as well as students can do share their signals by holding up one or two fingers
if they will get disagree. This is the strategy which will get allows the whole -participation of the
class and their responses (Klegeris, 2020).
Creating questions- Creating question is one of important thing for a person as it allow
students to listen to teachers effectively. If teacher ask any question about module or information
sharing, it will helps them to gain attention of every person. This is the way that students will
get actively get listen for any of the confusion as well as wondering they have.
Motivating words- Effective listeners are rare as well as valued at any place. This is really
important to get share with the students and to get share this with the students as well as also get

share the several facts that people who really get wants to listen as well as focused to get making
the eye contact and get share and restrain from the cutting offers from the conversation
(Golowko, 2021).
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be summarised that as everyone knows that good study skills can
get enhance the confidence as well as competence and self-esteem. As well as this can also get
reduce the anxiety about the tests as well as deadlines. The good study skills can get improve the
ability to get learn and retain the knowledge. The students who are using the effective study
skills that may feel their work as well as effort in the more worthwhile. challenges of listening
skills is sometimes get difficult as well as exhausting, but this is absolutely get required and there
will be also tremendous benefits for the everyone.

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