Training for Auditing (Listening) of Foreign Texts: Methodology and Experience

• Main Author: Anzhelika S. Boutousova
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sourthern Federal University 2017-10-01
• Series: Izvestiâ Ûžnogo Federalʹnogo Universiteta: Filologičeskie Nauki
• Subjects: teaching of listening; compensatory skills; auditory skills; exercise system; forecasting
• Online Access: http://philol-journal.sfedu.ru/index.php/sfuphilol/article/view/1063

Auditing is considered systematically as a psychophysiological and cognitive process, on the one hand, and as a type of speech activity, on the other. The levels and stages of learning to listen to foreign language texts with their inherent difficulties are singled out. There are elementary, intermediate and advanced levels of learning listening. The stages of training are divided into pretext, text and post-text. Based on the analysis of scientific literature and personal observations, language, cognitive and socio-cultural difficulties in listening have been discovered. A system of exercises aimed at forming an auditory skills is described. Audience skills include segmentation of speech into parts, anticipation of the meaning of parts of words and sentences, forecasting of form and meaning at the text level, skills related to the development of the mechanism of memory; compression and interpretation of the text. The auditory skills are interpreted as listening recognition and understanding of individual words and expressions and grammatical structures.