The article discusses aspects of teaching listening in the process of teaching a foreign language at a language university. The author analyzes the concept of listening from the point of view of pedagogy, methodology and psychology. The main content of the study is the analysis of listening as a receptive type of speech activity in general, and in particular the author considers this type of speech when teaching students of the Philology direction. The author emphasizes the competencies on which the teacher relies in teaching students of this direction, as well as the stages of development of auditory skills. The article analyzes different types of listening in accordance with different approaches. Considerable attention is paid to teaching listening on the basis of competence-based, personality-oriented and interactive approaches. The author comes to the conclusion that the purpose of teaching foreign languages at the university is to teach communication, which implies the development of communicative and auditory skills.

The article deals with the issues related to the formation of scientific picture of the world of students of philology. On the basis of the analysis of scientific sources devoted to this problem, the importance of the scientific picture of the world in the process of professional development of students of philology is determined; the main aspects of work on the formation of the scientific picture of the world of students of philology are considered; the importance of learning terminological vocabulary in the process of studying linguistic disciplines is substantiated. The author offers a thematic terminological minimum for the discipline “Introduction to Linguistics”, gives examples of methods of work with linguistic terminology, contributing to the formation of a scientific worldview.