FEATURES OF LISTENING TRAININGAS A SPEECH ACTIVITY
The article considers listening skills, its role in the formation of communicative competence and methods and approaches in teaching this type of speech activity. Listening is a receptive type of speech activity, the main purpose of which is to extract the necessary information. Since different genres of audio and video texts differ in different levels of complexity and immersion in the problems, we can say that learning to listen is a time-consuming process that requires well-coordinated collaboration between the teacher and the student.