WAYS OF OVERCOMING DIFFICULTIES IN TEACHING LISTENING COMPREHENSION OF STUDENTS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF HISTORICAL FACULTY, TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY (ENGLISH)
The article is devoted to the search for ways to overcome difficulties in teaching listening to 3rd year students of the Department of international relations of the faculty of History of TSU. Especially important is the removal of problems in teaching listening to the above students also because in the group of students have very different levels of mastery of a foreign language and it is very difficult to choose a video that would be suitable for each student in the group. To solve the problems the teacher is forced to develop tasks that meet different levels of training. The practical significance of the study is that the set of exercises developed by the author can be used for English classes for students of non-linguistic specialties. Our goal is to find the most suitable ways to overcome the difficulties in teaching listening to international students. During the research the following tasks were performed: 1) to theoretically justify the need and methods of removing the difficulties of listening in students of non-linguistic specialties with the use of activity approach; 2) select authentic material that meets the educational needs of students and is suitable for use as a training of listening skills; 3) develop a set of exercises for the development of interrelated listening skills of students of non-linguistic specialties, based on the application of the activity approach. At the end of the article is a set of exercises developed by the author on the basis of authentic news material, taking into account the removal of difficulties that students may face when listening.