GRAPHICAL TEXTS AS A MEANS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION SKILLS AT THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE LESSONS

This article is devoted to the problem of interpretation and use of graphic models in teaching listening comprehension to academic Russian speech. Methodically well-organized work on sounding texts helps students achieve high personal, subject and metasubject results. The virtual priorities of modern education impose new demands on learning process in the digital classrooms. One of the most effective means of teaching interpretation and understanding of sounding speech is Graphical texts, which are designed to optimize the educational process, to systemize and concise presentation of information.

The relevance of the research lies in the fact that listening is associated with the socialization of the individual and processes of formation of the student’s language personality. Sounding educational texts contain serious coverage of social, psychological, pedagogical, linguistic, and historical aspects of people’s lives; they are multifunctional. The lack of effective perception of sounding speech leads to a significant loss of information, mistakes in written speech. Therefore, the productivity of communication depends on the ability of the listener to understand and interpret the message.

The purpose of the research is teaching students listening comprehension based on the cognitive approach as a way of semantic processing.

The theoretical and methodological basis of the research is philosophical, methodological, psychological and linguistic works on the topic.

The result of this work is a theoretical and practical justification of effectiveness and functional significance of Graphical texts as a means to improve students’ listening comprehension skills in modern schools. Having analyzed the data, we came to the conclusion, that visual support as well as sounding text decoding into models increased schoolchildren’ interest in learning, motivation, enlarged vocabulary, establish logical thinking. The definition of “graphical text”, “learning strategy” is given. The authors reveal the cognitive and practical goals of working on sounding texts based on a cognitive approach to learning and mastering the Russian language.

Keywords: listening comprehension, understanding, methods of teaching the Russian language, educational standard