What are the Most Common

Barriers to Learning in
School?

What are the Most Common

Barriers to Learning in School?
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Motivation or "availability to learn

Social and cultural barriers
Emotional factors that affect learning
Personal issues that can affect
learning

1. Motivation or "availability to
learn
A students availability to learn depends largely on their
motivation.
Our personal desire to achieve results and improve our
knowledge, regardless of the material being studied, is
one of the most important factors in our ability to learn.
A lack of motivation is a major barrier to students
learning and without the desire to achieve; students
often end up doing the bare minimum amount of work in
the classroom, enough to get by but not enough to really
enhance their learning.

2. Social and cultural barriers

A childs ability to interact socially with
their peers has a significant impact on how
they progress in the classroom.
The very act of learning in a classroom
environment involves interacting with other
students, talking through problems and
finding solutions.

3. Emotional factors that affect

learning
The encouragement that we receive from
our teachers, parents and friends plays an
important role in our emotional learning.
If a student adopts a mind set of always
trying their best and learning from past
failures, theyll generally have a positive
outlook on their ability to learn

4. Personal issues that can affect learning

On an individual level, students often have
personal issues that affect their learning.
For example, students with diagnosed
learning difficulties like autism or Aspergers
syndrome will find certain elements of
learning more challenging than others.

Similarly, students with learning

impairments like dyslexia may find that
their personal barriers hinder their
progress at times.

5. Attitudes
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7. Language and CommunicationA