A Report on Foundation in Study Skills for Higher Education

This report delves into the realm of study skills, specifically focusing on the challenges students face in higher education and the strategies to overcome them. It begins by defining study skills and their importance in organizing information and enhancing learning. The main body discusses three k...Read More

Foundation in Study
Skills for Higher
Education

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Main body........................................................................................................................................3
Discuss three listening challenges...............................................................................................3
Three strategies to improve student’s listening skills..................................................................4
Some personal listening challenges and strategies to overcome them........................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Study skills are defined as the capabilities and competencies that help student to organise as
well as gathering new information, utilise it in higher education. There are various mnemonics
are included in study skills that aids the retention list of information in order to enhance effective
reading, concentrate on techniques and preparing efficient notes as well. As study skills facilitate
the students to interact with others and enhancing career opportunities. In this report various
challenges and problem that are faced by the student in interacting professors and students and
different strategies to enhance listening skills are covered in this report.
Main body
Discuss three listening challenges
Listening skills are defined as the ability of an individual to receive and interpret all
messages in appropriate manner in the communication process as it is considered as the key of
effective communication. In the lake of efficient listening, messages are misunderstood. There
are various listening challenges are faced by the students with interacting friends and teachers
that affect on their overall learning process and experience (Argent, Brown and Kelly, 2020).
Some listening challenges are discussed below:
Technical listening challenge: There are various technical listening challenges are faced
by the students in classes that impacts on their learning process. Some technical errors such as
hemicraniectomy or thrombolysis that affect the listening of student and enables them to
understand speaker properly, hear, pronounce. All critical technical terms are used by the
teachers during lecture that are not understandable by student the problem that impacts on
effective listening process.
Linguistic listening challenge: In the linguistic challenge various factors are included such
as inappropriate delivery of message and speech, unnecessary accent used in speech and special
vocabulary that enables the student understand the proper meaning of message. Some times
teachers use high use high vocabulary and accent in their speech that creates difficulty for
student to understand lecture properly (Gasmi and Bouras, 2018). Complex structure of speech
also the challenge that is faced by the student during the lecture.
Grammatical challenges: Grammatical complexity is the biggest listening challenge that
is faced by the students during their educational lectures. There are various factors that enhance

overall complexity such as long sentences, inappropriate start of speech and high use of complex
noun and phrases that enhance the difficulty of student to under speech and in interacting with
teachers. As long sentences crease the complexity and leads towards unclear meaning as well.
Too much use of phrases and nouns creates confusion in the mind of student and affect the active
listening (Jackson and Collings, 2018). Apart from that if teacher use more double meaning
words in their speech that creates various complications in understanding the correct meaning of
message as well as affect overall learning process.
Three strategies to improve student’s listening skills
As students face various challenges in listening that affect their overall learning process as
well as experience. So, teachers implement various strategies in order to improve listening skills
that enable them to grab all message in the way what teacher want to convey. Some strategies are
defined below:
Technology in classroom: Involvement of technological aspects in classroom and teaching
process engage students actively. As listening to other is the process to gain informative
knowledge. There are various technologies such as interactive whiteboard, mobile device and
other educational technologies to display academic concept enhance the overall listening skills
students.
Start giving listening task: Teacher provide regular task to student in order to enhance skills
of active listening. There are task is given to student to discuss on particular topic that help them
to listen actively others. In the given task, student listen other carefully and take active part in
discussion.
Talk less: As teachers spend their lots of time in taking lecturer of students. But only listening of
lecture dose not make any sense for the students because it is not enhancing their understanding
and knowledge about specific topic. So, to enhance the listening skills of student’s teachers
prepare short topic in which student take interest and listening them carefully for short period of
time (Jackson, 2017). Apart from that teachers use various visual effects that attract students
towards learning and pay proper attention as well. In visual lectures student listen teacher’s
speech with interest.
Some personal listening challenges and strategies to overcome them
There are various challenges that creates the barriers in the life of student in the process effective
listening. Some challenges and problems in listening are such as when an individual is trying to

listen various conversations at a time that enhance the disturbance in listening process. This
listening issue affect the overall learning and experience as well. To overcome challenge, it is
necessary to pay attention on one conversation at a single time and all words must be listen
carefully for avoiding the active barriers in listening (Jiwane, 2019). Apart from that there are
various challenges that affect efficient listening such as the topic is not interested. Some
challenges such as environmental factors such as room temperature and lightning, cognitive
limits, technological aspects and multitasking play active role in creating challenge in listening
process. There are various strategies that overcomes the challenges of active listening such as
minimise all distractions, reduce all outsider noise that creates disturbance, prioritize the
listening over the speaking, show interest in the conversation with partner that reflect active
engagement (Khasanzyanova, 2017). All these strategies help to understand the topic in effective
manner learn from conversation in order to enhance experience. Various technological aspects
that help in enhancing the listening skills of student.
CONCLUSION
As per above report, it can be concluded that active and efficient listening play important
role in student’s life in order to attain all defined goals and objectives in higher education.
Students face various challenges during the conversation that affect their listening skills. There
are various strategies are implemented by the teachers to overcome all barriers and enhance the
concentrated and active listening in students that help them to understand all concepts properly
and enhance overall experience.

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