PSYCHOLINGUISTIC PECULIARITIES OF TEACHING SENIOR STUDENTS ENGLISH LISTENING SKILLS

Abstract

Ukraine continues the processes of reforming and improving all the aspects of social life and its education is not an exception. Future professionals must be able to work with modern technologies, get to know as well as implement interesting projects and ideas using new methods of solving the existing problems. Under these circumstances the development of foreign language speaking skills, in particular English language competence, with the aim of exchanging experience and information with colleagues from other countries, implementation of common projects and developing interesting ideas become issues of primary importance. Foreign language communication involves not only the speaker’s ability to provide information, but also his/her ability to perceive and understand a certain text in a foreign language while communicating. The research of psycholinguistic preconditions of developing senior students’ listening skills will make it possible to organize the process of teaching a foreign language in a more effective way as well as will contribute to the formation of their listening skills. The aim of the article is to investigate psycholinguistic preconditions of developing senior students’ English listening skills in modern society. The research is based on the methods of the analysis of scientific articles and books on the methods of teaching a foreign language, psycholinguistics, psychology, didactics, pedagogy as well as the generalization of the experience of developing students’ listening skills with the aim of raising the effectiveness of teaching English. The effectiveness of developing English listening skills depends on the fact whether the teacher takes into consideration students’ psycholinguistic peculiarities. Perception, understanding and memorizing information will be more effective if it is interesting for students and is connected with their interests as well as future profession.