Listening & Concentration Handouts

Improve Your Concentration

Everyone struggles with the ability to concentrate at certain times. Your ability can be improved by identifying factors causing the interference, experimenting with different techniques, and evaluating what techniques do and do not work for you.

Listening & Concentration Links

Follow these links for resources on listening and concentration. Each of these sites offers learning resources appropriate for college-level learners. Please note that neither SPU nor the Center for Learning is responsible for contents on the following pages.

• Improving Concentration

  More techniques for identifying distracters and developing good concentration behaviors.

  http://www.sdc.uwo.ca/learning/index.html?concentration

• Concentration

Some causes of poor concentration and suggested solutions: Internal Distractions, External Distractions, and Physical & Mental Fatigue.

http://www.villanova.edu/studentlife/counselingcenter/infosheets/studyskills/concentration.htm

 

• Study Environment Analysis

An on-line quiz about your three favorite study spots… are they up to par?

http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/studydis.html

 

• Listening & Note-taking

Six listening tips to try and how.

http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infocs/study/listening.html

• Listening Skills

Since the human brain works about four times as fast as the mouth, to listen effectively requires that you maintain a considerable amount of self-control and concentration. Learn more about this rarely taught skill.

http://www.scs.tamu.edu/selfhelp/elibrary/listening_skills.asp