Technologies in Listening Comprehension and Teaching English to Non-linguistic Students

The article looks upon bottom-up and top-down approaches in listening comprehension. overview of the strategies is based on shift between language systems skills, focus form versus content, as well students’ difficulties caused by phonological peculiarities English native speakers’ talk. author addresses issues pragmatics background knowledge, types inferences receptive modes communication, interactive tasks their importance for decoding foreign massages, compensatory affective teaching, heuristic reflective aspects education, problem-solving activities CLIL (content integrated learning). Criteria choosing appropriate strategy comprehension are listed examples classroom given.