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Methods of Teaching Listening Comprehension in English and their 

Effective Use 

 
 

Ropiyeva Gulzoda 
 

 
Jizzakh State Pedagogical University 
  
  
 

Abstract: The issue of effective organization of teaching listening for professional purposes of 

university students is considered; an overview of modern requirements and existing approaches to 

this methodological problem is shown; a description of the author's approach is given; examples are 

given from their own experience in organizing the process of learning to listen to professional texts. 

Professionally oriented listening is analyzed as a goal and a means of teaching at a university, which 

from a functional and pragmatic point of view implies mastery of different types of listening in 

accordance with the content of audio materials. 
 
Keywords: English for Special Purposes; audio materials; listening; types of listening; listening 

training. 

 
  
INTRОDUСTIОN 

Listening to foreign speech is one of the most difficult types of speech activity to master, since 

listening is an active speech-thinking process, during which all mental and mental mechanisms are 

working hard to perceive sounding speech, perception received in sound form. information, its 

recognition, interpretation and understanding of meaning [1]. In the conditions of the university, the 

problem of teaching foreign language, in particular, English, texts of professionally oriented content 

to listen to is particularly acute. 

MАTЕRIАLS АND MЕTHОDS 

Despite the fact that interesting works on this topic have recently appeared [3, 4], the effective 

organization of listening training for professional purposes has not lost its significance and 

relevance. This article describes the author's approach and experience in teaching students to listen to 

professional English-language texts. 

The essence of professionally oriented listening training lies in the formation of the skills of 

perception and understanding of the interlocutor's statement in a foreign language, generated in a 

monologue form or in the process of dialogue in accordance with a certain real professional field and 

work situation. At the same time, listening itself can act both as a learning goal (perception and 

interpretation of English speech by ear, followed by analysis of the information received and its use), 

and as a means of learning / self-learning (audio and video materials are used by students as a source 

information in the preparation of creative tasks), and as a means of control/self-control of knowledge 

of the studied lexical and grammatical material at the final stage of working with it. 

RЕSULTS АND DISСUSSIОN 

The content of audio texts must meet the following criteria: authenticity of sources; professional 

orientation of information: reflection of areas of activity, situations of professional communication, 

professionally significant topics; functional, stylistic and genre correlation with the acquired 



 

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specialty; representation of samples of monologue and dialogic speech; the availability of 

information on sociocultural and regional studies; taking into account the level of professional and 

language training of students: the corresponding level of difficulty of the lexical and grammatical 

content of the text; a certain pace of sound, the distinctness of the announcer's pronunciation; 

inclusion of a noise-carrying background in the audio recording; phonetic coloring (see details about 

the features of audio texts in [2]). 

Within the framework of professionally oriented education, the choice of audio texts should 

correspond to the genre and functional-stylistic features characteristic of professional areas of 

communication. Based on this criterion, audio texts should reflect such genres of scientific style as a 

report, lecture, scientific conversation, discussion, presentation of projects and production style of 

speech - instruction, message, description of the production process / technical device / technology. 

According to the forms of oral speech, audio materials are monologue and dialogic statements. 

Monologue (lectures, audio recordings of scientific, popular science works, information radio 

broadcasts, documentaries and TV programs, audio and video materials that are freely available on 

the Internet, including on various professional websites or YouTube [1]) are the most more popular 

form of audio texts in academic and professional terms. Successful listening of monologue 

statements depends on background conceptual knowledge of the subject matter; from the ability to 

differentiate between essential and non-essential; on the ability of listeners (students) to focus 

attention for a long time, to know the lexical-grammatical and stylistic features of oral lectures 

(ellipses, hesitations, repetitions, contractions, academic professionalism, jargon, etc.); understand 

large and complex segments of spoken speech. Learning to listen to dialogic speech takes place in 

two directions: a student can either be an active participant in this conversation, while listening acts 

as a component of oral speech communication during classroom classes, or indirectly, during a 

telephone conversation or a conversation with using modern communication tools, such as Skype, 

whose participants alternately act as a speaker, then as a listener, or as a passive listener, without 

being able to influence the course of the conversation, ask again or clarify some details (listening to 

the dialogue ). 

When developing a strategy for teaching listening to the above audio texts, it is also necessary to 

take into account the type of listening and the mental processes of perception/interpretation of 

information involved in its implementation. It should be noted that any work on audio texts includes 

three stages: 

1) motivational and incentive (attitude, motive and goal); 

2) analytical-synthetic (perception and processing of the text); 

3) executive (understanding) [2]. 

Each stage has its own set of tasks: 1) pre-audit; 2) during the audition; 3) following the audition. 

During the motivational-incentive stage, orientation takes place, students are tuned in to the type of 

text that they will hear, and the information that they will need to extract from what they have 

listened to. At this stage, students are instructed which text they will listen to (interview with ...; 

lecture on ...; dialogue in ...); provide the necessary background information about the text; let you 

listen to an abbreviated, simplified or slowed down version of the recording before listening to the 

full text; highlight and read together with the teacher key words and expressions that occur in the 

text; offer photographs, diagrams, drawings for study; provide an opportunity to read the summary. 

For example, “Listen to this lecture about FOR (flight data recorder). Underline the correct 

alternatives in the specification chart”, “Listen to a demonstration of a life raft and underline the 

correct details”, “Listen to this talk about vacuum formation. Tick the objects that are used in the 

process: air pump, hopper, powder, cylinder, mold with holes, solid mold, heater, pellets, 

thermoplastic sheet” [4]. 

At the stage of perception and processing of the text, students compare what they heard with what 

they knew before. Their background knowledge becomes the basis for understanding the sounding 

text. Thus, this stage is inextricably linked with the stage of understanding the text. The degree of 



 

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understanding affects the performance of post-text tasks. Tasks performed in the process of auditing 

can be divided into the following types: questions: a) choice questions; b) right/wrong/don't know; c) 

questions that do not have a clear answer; recognition: a) determine the type of text (advertising, 

interview, commentary, story, etc.); b) determine the context: who is talking, with whom, about 

what, when, etc.; c) recognize the selected units, that is, the keywords, the number of times an 

expression is used, all the names; correlation: a) correlate the description with the corresponding 

pictures, diagrams, b) correlate the sequence of events in the text, the order of operation of the 

technical device; execution of the instruction [4]: a) complete the diagram/diagram/table/drawing; b) 

fill in the scheme/diagram; c) mark the objects in the picture; d) note the order of work; e) draw a 

diagram, etc.; note-taking: a) fill out the form; b) fill in the schedule of the sequence of operations, 

for example, assembling something; c) make notes on key words on the topic; use of transcription: a) 

note the pauses in the transcription of an oral story that does not have punctuation; b) listen to the 

text and note the small differences that occur in the transcription of the text; Interpretation: a) listen 

to the comments in the dialogue (or interview) and evaluate the attitude of the speaker, for example, 

approval/disapproval; completion: a) fill in the gaps with missing words; b) complete the unsaid 

statement; c) “role-playing listening”: the dialogue is listened to in pairs, each student plays the role 

of one of the speakers, followed by the reproduction of the role in the oral discussion; d) completion 

of a dialogue or message: students listen to only one of the speakers. 

For example, students are invited to watch and listen to a video clip about the features of space 

engines, before that they are invited to read a short text on the same topic. Then the text is returned 

to the teacher, and the students are given the task of choosing the appropriate information. They can 

do this both in the process of listening and after it, which contributes to the concentration of students' 

attention, as well as better perception and interpretation of audio information. 

At the stage of understanding, tasks should involve students in active creative activity. The following 

types of work are offered here: suggest your title for the text; prepare questions and answers based 

on the interpretation of what was said; describe or role-play what could have happened before or 

after the text you heard; express your opinion on a particular topic; describe the personality and 

character of the participants in the dialogue; discuss the position of the author of the article, the 

interviewee, the correspondent, etc [5]. 

Working in a computer class or at home allows you to work out several thematically related texts, 

followed by their discussion and the performance of various creative tasks. Students have the 

opportunity to repeatedly listen to texts and train in translations. The use of these texts in the format 

of an audio recording in the classroom allows you to quickly and effectively demonstrate new 

language material with its high-quality initial development. It should be noted that repeated listening 

during classroom work under the guidance of a teacher or extracurricular independent work allows 

you to achieve a more complete understanding of audio material, develop the pronunciation skills of 

individual language units, memorize lexical and grammatical structures characteristic of professional 

texts, as well as further interpretation of its content. 

СОNСLUSIОN 

In conclusion, we note that training in professionally oriented listening in universities plays an 

important role in the preparation of highly professional specialists who are able to take an active part 

in various situations of international cooperation. The ability to listen and understand professional 

English speech is a key moment in the communication of professionals. This must and can be 

learned within the framework of a university program under the guidance of a teacher and in the 

process of independent work. 

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1. Galskova, N. D. Theory of teaching foreign languages. Linguodidactics and methodology / N. D. 

Galskova, N. I. Gez. - M. : Academy, 2016. - 336 p. 

2. Federal State Educational Standards for Higher Education (FSES HE; FSES 3+). (date of access: 

28.04.2015). 



 

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