The Effectiveness of Listening and Speaking Activities in Developing Students' Communicative Competence When Learning a Foreign Language

Abstract

In the current conditions of rapid development of science and technology, the development of communicative skills in a foreign language at a high level is relevant, which indicates the need to improve them through listening and speaking activities. The aim is to assess the level of students' communicative skills when learning a foreign language on the basis of which the effectiveness of listening and speaking activities in developing students' communicative skills when learning a foreign language can be justified. The survey was conducted among teachers and students of the Far Eastern Federal University (Russian Federation); it included thirty-five university teachers and 240 first and second year students aged 18-20 years. The results were based on the fact that the teachers confirmed the students' poor communicative skills and emphasized various speaking activities in the study of a foreign language. The experimental phase of the study, focusing on the implementation of the instructional model, showed that in the experimental group, there was a rapid decrease in the number of students with a low level of proficiency (from 25% to 11%) and an increase in the number of students with a high (up to 36%) and medium (up to 51%) level of proficiency. The practical importance of the study is explained by the possibility of using the developed tests to determine the level of students' communication skills, and the developed program can be used to develop and improve listening and speaking skills. Prospects for further research can be based on the possibility of defining the role of psychological and pedagogical disciplines in the formation of communicative skills of students, developing scientific and methodological support for the formation of communicative skills during the study of special disciplines.