THE ROLE OF LISTENING AS A SPEECH ACTIVITY IN THE PROCESS OF TEACHING RUSSIAN LANGUAGE IN IRAN

Listening at the initial stage of work with Iranian students is one of the most topical issues in Russian language teaching in Iran, since students are out of the language environ- ment, and, as we know, verbal communication is impossible without listening. At the present stage of development of methodical science listening is considered as a fundamental skill in teaching not only Russian, but also to all foreign languages. This speech activity is the basis of communication