LISTENING AS THE MOST COMPLEX ELEMENT OF LINGUODIDACTICS IN TEACHING A SPECIALITY LANGUAGE: WAYS OF ACTIVATING THE PERCEPTUAL SKILL

Abstract

The article is based on results of long-term teaching experience and on work that is passed from one generation of teachers to another at the Department of English Language for Professional Communication at Financial University. Namely it is the work with listening tasks that are used while training undergraduate students. This type of speech activity is rightly considered to be one of the most difficult for students. The article summarises the experience of work on the formation and development of listening comprehension skills. It is suggested to combine in the tasks of different types on cognitive skills and stimulate creative thinking of students’ in order to obtain more effective outcomes of educational audiolingual activity. Recommendations on activating one of the perceptual skills – listening to foreign speech – are given. The author concludes that it is very important to pay attention not only to professional aspects in a foreign language when teaching the language of a specialty in a non-linguistic university, but also to acquaint with the general culture, norms of business etiquette, forms of communication and methods of designing both written and oral speech samples.