PRINCIPLES OF FORMATION OF LISTENING SKILLS OF STUDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

Abstrakt

The article views listening comprehension as a type of speech activity and an important aspect of teaching a foreign language, allowing students to communicate with native speakers successfully. The formation of auditory skills makes significant difficulties for students, since complex psychophysiological processes are involved in the process of perceiving speech, and the listening process itself is accompanied by difficulties associated with both the language form of the message and the various characteristics of the message source and the conditions of its presentation. The author of the article analyzes the features of listening comprehension as a type of speech activity and the aspect of studying, considers difficulties of developing the students’ auditory competence and suggests the principles of auditory competence formation based on the specifics of the development of language and speech skills in the natural environment: principles of communication, activity, interaction of the main types of speech activity, accessibility, intensity, visibility, systematic and consistent studies, individualization.