THE ROLE OF LISTENING IN INCREASING THE INTENSITY OF EFL TRAINING WITHIN SELF-REGULATED LEARNING: A CORRELATION STUDY

The article considers skills of learners to implement active listening, which influences the overall language training activities while self-independent learning. The relevance of the study refers to the fact that most researches on the issue are related to psychological and pedagogical aspects as well as basic techniques of teaching listening. This work states the hypothesis about the key role of authentic audio and video listening as a means of stereotyping the ways of EFL learning. The purpose is to empirically present the influence of students' auditory skills in increasing their EFL practice in reading, grammar / vocabulary and speaking as a result of exercising within self-regulated leaning. Students of economic and engineering majors of Bauman Moscow State Technical University took part in the correlation study. Empirical data were collected by means of the author-made language test of the current EFL level, double Google questionnaire and statistical processing of the obtained data. The first questionnaire was used to allocate two focus groups of students in accordance with the frequency of their approach to performing various listening exercises (daily/occasionally), respectively. The second survey revealed the increasing tendency of students with daily practice to perform exercises of different EFL aspects. The results of the study, confirmed by theoretical developments, statistical results and external observations based on teaching experience, allowed to give a justification for the hypothesis put forward about the primary role of listening in developing basic communicative competencies as a result of immersion into an authentic environment. The conclusion considers the need to teach students to developing skills for daily performance of audio/video exercises in self-preparation, modern technologies providing easy access to training materials.