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

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

Study Skills for Higher
Education

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Five listening challenges ............................................................................................................3
Strategies which can be used by the teachers for developing the listening skills.......................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
Books and Journals.....................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Higher education is the step after the student has left its school and this higher education
includes the graduate and undergraduate programmes. This is the stage in which the individual
learns and studies about those things in which they have interest(Al-Mansoori and Koç, 2019).
Study skills are those skills which is required by every individual so that all the discussions
which are taking place in the class could be easily understandable. Every person requires some
type of skill which might be helpful either in the workplace or in their academics. But for the
students having skills is very important so that they understand the study well and does not found
any issue while studying. This report will cover listening challenges which the student founds
and the strategies which can be used by teachers to improve the listening skills of students.
MAIN BODY
Five listening challenges
There are different challenges which are faced by students in their academics which have been
discussed below-
 False start- False start is not the same as that of corrections and repetition but the start of
sentences which is not correct. The false start of sentences is the main issue which creates
the difficulty of listening to the students. The main difficulty starts from this point only in
which the students are unable to listen well (Arkoudis, 2018). But if the student is
intelligent enough then they might not face any difficulty in understanding the thing
perfectly. But for understanding and learning any topic it is very important that the start
of any new topic is correct because the students are not aware about the topic and if it is
started wrongly then every student will perceive it differently.
 Technical terms- The technical terms are the difficult words which might not be known
by other individual. Those individual who are having the knowledge in technical terms
then it will be very easy for them but those who are unable to understand it well then they
might find it difficult to understand(Stewart, 2021). This is the other challenge in