"SOUND NEO-IMAGE" OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE AS A BASIS FOR IMPROVING HEARING-PRONOUNCING SKILLS WHILE TEACHING AUDITING (PEDAGOGICAL EDUCATION)
The article outlines the role of auditory-pronouncing skills as the basis for a successful understanding of spoken speech in French. The authors emphasize the influence of geopolitical, globalization and social changes in the French-speaking society on the pronunciation side of the language, which, in their opinion, makes it possible to speak of its «sound neo-image». This fact entails the need to rethink the setting of accents in teaching phonetics at a language university. The steady trend of recent decades towards the coexistence of three types of pronunciation norms - objective, prescribed, subjective - obliges us to make significant adjustments to the setting and separation of goals for the stages of formation and improvement of auditory-pronunciation skills. The formation stage is characterized by reliance on a prescribed pronunciation rate, where the goal is to achieve automated pronunciation of sounds and intonation models of the French language by students in accordance with the prescribed rate. At the stage of improving auditory-pronunciation skills, the student continues to work on orthoepic pronunciation, while acquiring auditory skills in the field of understanding modern French speech, corresponding to the subjective pronunciation norm, which is necessary for successful intercultural communication.