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

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