University Communication Report: Student vs. Learner Perspectives

This report examines the differences between a student and a learner in the context of higher education. It begins by defining communication and its various types, including verbal, written, non-verbal, and visual. The main body of the report contrasts the approaches of students and learners, highlighting that students often focus on achieving high grades through analytical study, while learners prioritize practical skills and experiential knowledge. The report notes that students may rely on the guidance of professionals and adhere to established methods, whereas learners are more likely to learn from their own experiences and mistakes. The conclusion summarizes these differences, emphasizing that students often aim for academic achievement, whereas learners are driven by a sense of accomplishment and the acquisition of new knowledge. The report references several academic sources to support its analysis.

USING COMMUNICATION TO
BECOME AN EFFECTIVE STUDENT IN
UNIVERSITY

Table of Contents
 INTRODUCTION
 MAIN BODY
 Differences between a student and learner
 CONCLUSION
 REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
 Communication is act of conveying meaning from one person to another through use of mutually
understood semiotic rules, symbols and signs (Geurts, 2019).
 It is used to share information and most essential data through speech. Communication is
distinguished into four types such as verbal, written, non-verbal and visual.
 The current report is based on communication, it defines the differences between student and
learner.

Differences between a students and
learner Student Learner
• Student is someone who studies or who uses analytical
approached ton evaluate a subject and obtain
knowledge, commonly under guidance of professionals
in university (Singh, 2018).
• Student focus on passing assessments with greater
results and desired to get high scores in each
assessment.
• Student always focus on gaining better knowledge by
reading books and other course of work that help to
acquire knowledge in different field of study.
• They believe their teacher who knows everything and
trusts whatever they say as perfectly good, nothing to
query their experiences and knowledge.
• On the other hand, a learner is person who learns
something or who is in procedure of obtaining practical
abilities, whereas student is a individual who is
engaged in studying academic topics and acquiring
knowledge.
• On the other side learner learns new things from their
own mistakes and experiences, they listen to everyone,
clubs everybody's suggestions and opinion and select
the best out of them and then come to a final decision.
• Learner always believe on their sole wisdom & practice
in own way.
• Whereas, learner always need to be as a student for
leaning and understanding new things.

CONCLUSION
 From above analysis is has been concluded that student and learner are different from each other.
 Student expected to acquire grades in order to enter into better college, on the other side, learner
are compensated by sense of an accomplishment that is not provided to them but more than earned
by them in order to obtain new things in reward.

REFERENCES
 Geurts, B., 2019. Communication as commitment sharing: speech acts, implicatures, common
ground. Theoretical linguistics. 45(1-2). pp.1-30.
 Kazakoff, E.R., Macaruso, P. and Hook, P., 2018. Efficacy of a blended learning approach to
elementary school reading instruction for students who are English Learners. Educational
Technology Research and Development. 66(2). pp.429-449.
 Singh, R.A.J.D.E.E.P., 2018. Areas of errors and difficulty for persian learners of spanish caused
by the sound system differences between persian and spanish: a phonetic approach to inter-lingual
system. KAAV international journal of English, literature, and linguistics. 5. pp.1-8.
 Wei, Q., Siriyothin, P. and Lian, A.P., 2018. Chinese university EFL students’ perceptions of
learner autonomy in language learning. Beyond Words. 6(1). pp.26-40.

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