Using Video Films as a Way to Improve the Cognitive Activity of Students in Teaching Listening

Abstract

Learning a foreign language is a complex and time consuming process. In the context of the competence based approach in the modern educational paradigm of higher schools, great importance is attached to the formation of speech competence of students in teaching a foreign language. Mastering speech competence means the student’s ability to form and formulate thoughts through language and the ability to use such methods in the process of perception and generation of speech, mastering one of the most important components of speech competence the ability to perceive spoken language by ear, listening skill. The main problem that a teacher faces when teaching listening is the choice of the most effective way of teaching and developing a skill, since until now not all students have the proper motivation to master it and understand the significance of their learning.