СТРАТЕГІЇ РОЗВИТКУ КОМУНІКАТИВНОГО ВМІННЯ АУДІЮВАННЯ НА РІВНІ НЕЗАЛЕЖНИХ КОРИСТУВАЧІВ АНГЛІЙСЬКОЇ МОВИ

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The paper focuses on the description of strategies for improving the communicative skill of listening at the independent user of English level. One of the key competencies of a modern person is the ability to listen carefully, analyze both surface information and deep implications, perceive a message critically, assess it, and understand the speaker’s intentions and purpose. Depth and completeness of oral speech perception and comprehension depend primarily on the level of communicative skills of listening as a complex of speech, intellectual and compensatory skills. We understand listening skill as a multi-componential skill, the recipient’s ability to consciously and purposefully perceive an oral message with subsequent reproduction and interpretation of it. The communicative strategy in listening is the optimal realization of the speaker’s intentions to perceive, decode and comprehend an oral message through disclosing and understanding its meaningful connections. Learning and communicative strategies are closely connected, because the purpose of teaching a foreign language is forming communicative competence in a foreign language. With the purpose of deep and complete comprehension of oral speech it is worth using strategies aimed at training certain communicative skills of listening. In the process of active listening the independent user of English is supposed to make use of the following strategies: 1) the strategy of identifying the context of conversation; 2) the strategy of recognizing speakers’ intentions; 3) the strategy of clarifying the theme of the message and giving a possible variant of the title to it; 4) the strategy of identifying the genre of the text and its style; 5) the strategy of separating facts and opinions; 6) the strategy of recognizing thoughts and opinions of several members of the discussion, finding common ideas; 7) the strategy of determining the organization of information (chronological, thematic, etc) and finding logical connections between parts of the text; 8) the strategy of identifying details; 9) the strategy of working out the meaning of unknown words from context. The article demonstrates how these learning and communicative strategies are used in the teaching process on the example of exercises in the English textbooks of B1-B2 levels: Choices Upper-Intermediate, Get 200 and Pioneer B2.