Developing and improving the study skills do help the student:
1. To make more efficient use of the study time - get more work done in less time
2. To make learning easier, and help retain what is learned for longer
3. To feel the work and effort involved is worthwhile
Who Can Benefit from Study Skills?
Anyone who is engaged in learning can benefit from developing his or her study skills. Regardless of whether you are preparing for college, or have already started on a course of study, you can always improve your ability to learn, retain, and retrieve information.The aim of the study skills is to help to develop better study strategies, so that the student can increase the chances of being successful in whatever he chooses to study, at whatever level.
The Study Skills involve in the activities of self improvement and in order to develop a healthy environment also for academics as well as in life situations.
The Study Skill helps a student generally in the following ways:
1. Motivation, goal setting, and time management
2. Organizing resources, and developing an environment for effective study
3. Improves the Reading and Note-preparation ability
4. Prepares the students for Examinations
5. Make better use of their time
6. Develop skills relevant to the course of study
7. Develop techniques and strategies that improve the ability to learn
Language Skills :Language Skills are the skills that are involved in the improvement of general capabilities of the students. Language skills are the overall skills involved in the usage of a language. As the Study Skills are multifaceted, the language skills are also not limited to a few one; rather these include in themselves all the usage of a language by its users. The language skills are, in that sense the collection of all the skills that are in required to make into use a language. In the language skills is inclusion of the structure of a language, its connotations, annotations and also the implications in its usage phenomenon. The Study Skills is a comprehensive term which deals all the skills requisite of a language use.
The Study Skill comprises of the four skills in comprehensive usage of a language that are as under:
1. -LISTENING SKILL
2. -SPEAKING SKILL
3. -READING SKILL
4. -WRITING SKILL
Significance of Language Skills in a Student’s life:
As Sir Francis Bacon had said:
“Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing a perfect man.”
The language skills play a vital role in the usage of a language in its all forms - spoken, written, read and listened. A language is used in all the four ways; listening, speaking, reading and writing patterns and this is
its natural sequence. In the usage of a language, it is necessary to use it in the natural setting and sequence. The use of language skills specifies how the language should come into utilization of its users. The natural sequence of the language skills follows the manner as a child first of all adopts the Listening skill and listens to his beings whatever they utter before him. There is a stage of his listening process in his environment. The process of listening continues for sometime which is followed by the imitation of the listening patterns into spoken practice. The child tries to copy others, especially his mother, father and other close relations with whom he come in close contact most frequently. The speaking practice continues for ever by the child that is followed by reading all the stuff that comes in the written format. The reading skill is eventually followed by the writing skill. Writing come at the last of the sequence of the language usage but it is the most significant one, as “writing maketh a perfect man.” Moreover, the written record is the guarantee of a language of its revival and its very life. If a language is not more than in its usage in written format, that language gets wiped away from its existence and soon its vanishes from the face of the earth as a living language. There are a lot languages whose mere historical record is a witness that that languages have been in usage by the human beings. So the writing skill as well as the written format of a language has basic importance in order of its existence and survival.
Here is given the nature and significance of the languages in their natural order in relation to their mastery and expertise.
1.Listening Skill:Listening is an integral part of communication process but a few students are taught how to listen effectively. Many students believe that hearing what is said is the same as listening to what is said. In reality, they are distinctly different.
Hearing is a physical yet passive act involving the process and function of perceiving sound.
Listening is hearing the sounds with deliberate intention. Therefore, unlike hearing, listening is a skill that improves through conscious effort and practice.
The extensive listening skill leads towards better speaking skill. The more you listen, the more spoken fluency gets developed.
2.Speaking Skill :Speaking is an essential part of language acquisition process. It is the most important skill out of the four language skills. Speaking skill involves the active participation of the language learner. The speaking skill is considered as the high magnitude skill among the language skills. The speaking skill makes a language a living language on the face of the earth. To utilize a language in spoken format, to master its sound patterns is its necessity. In the natural sequence, speaking skill come at No. 2, after the cognition of listening. The extent of the speaking skill is ‘Fluency’.
3.Reading Skill:Reading skill is an individual’s standing on some reading assessment. Skilled readers are those who score above some standard on this assessment; readers of low skill are those who score below some standard. The substantive question is this: What are the processes of reading that produce variation in assessed reading skill? This question is the focus here: given that two individuals differ in some global assessment of their reading, what differences in reading processes are candidates to explain this difference? The reading skill leads towards better writing power.
4.Writing Skill:The writing skill comes at the last of the language skills in order of their natural sequence but it is not the least in significance. All the written work and the written record of any language is the guarantee for the survival of a language. The importance of writing skill is of two fold; on one hand it is the sure test of an individual of his language skill, and on the other hand it makes a language living on the surface of the earth. Writing skill is an active skill like speaking skill. The extent of the writing skill is ‘Self Writing’ and ‘Craetive Writing’.
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