THE ROLE OF LISTENING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING.

This article focuses on the role of listening in foreign language teaching. Proficiency in this type of speech activity—responding to spoken language—helps learners formulate accurate responses. In teaching listening comprehension, the levels of understanding and methods of assessing them play a crucial role. Comprehension at the word level is fragmentary and depends on the relationship between the listener's active, passive, and potential vocabulary, as well as their ability to utilize the determinative function of word combinations and context.