COMPETENCY OF LISTENING COMPREHENSION IN NON-PHILOLOGICAL DIRECTIONS

Abstract

The article under discussion considers issues of teaching listening in a foreign language classes to students of non-philological higher educational institutions. The author of article considers that studying of this question remains actual, because at the modern stage of development of a methodical science listening is considered as fundamental skill in teaching a foreign language which aims at mastering a foreign language as a whole. Observations of methodologists over the educational process have shown that students who are not specifically taught to the perception by hearing, listening skills are not developed. Obviously, the skills are not learned intuitively, they are formed through intensive listening practice in a foreign language classes.