Methods of Teaching Listening Comprehension in English and their Effective Use

Abstract

The issue of effective organization of teaching listening for professional purposes of university students is considered; an overview of modern requirements and existing approaches to this methodological problem is shown; a description of the author's approach is given; examples are given from their own experience in organizing the process of learning to listen to professional texts. Professionally oriented listening is analyzed as a goal and a means of teaching at a university, which from a functional and pragmatic point of view implies mastery of different types of listening in accordance with the content of audio materials.