Question

which listening barriers are more frequent to students? which do you think are the easiest to overcome? The most difficult? What evidence do you have for your answers? What are the listening barriers for online students?

Answer 1

One of the most important barriers to listening for students is lack of interest in the subject. When they are not interested in the subject being taught, they won’t show any interest in listening. Apart from that, if they don’t like the lecturer or professor, they won’t listen. Students are tend to get distracted very often. This, sometimes happens when they are distracted by various thoughts and at times, they will also get deviated by different noises.

The easiest thing to overcome in this is starting to like the subject and the professor because these two are not going to change as they have chosen the subject and college already. So, if they start to like them, they will be able to connect themselves well. The most difficult one is distractions, either by themselves or by others because these are going to be there every time. So, focusing on the task at hand will be very tough for them as the human mind tend to get distracted. This is evident almost in every class where someone suddenly start day dreaming or someone suddenly looks here and there whenever they hear a noise.

Online students do not have any control from the speaker, so they could do anything they want. They can act as if they are listening but in fact, they could be doing something else behind the camera. So, online listening is really distractive as no one can force anyone to listen.