Keyword: «communicative tactics»

The article is devoted to considering listening comprehension as a type of speech activity and selected aspects of teaching foreign students listening skills. It addresses the teaching objectives with regard to listening comprehension, provides a basic nomenclature of listening skills, elicits the groups of learning difficulties connected with formation of the listening skills and suggests some ways of overcoming these difficulties by means of the consistent system of tasks aimed at improving both all kinds of listening skills and compensatory skills.