Keyword: «listening difficulties»

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.

Based on focused observations, the main causes of the listening difficulties of Chinese students were identified. The main ways of overcoming difficulties in listening are suggested taking into account the types of listening. Listening exercises are offered with the aim of developing students' phonemic hearing. The purpose of the article: to offer practical recommendations that contribute to the development of listening skills of Chinese students.