Modern Journal of Language Teaching Methods (MJLTM) ISSN: 2251-6204 www.mjltm.org © 2017 The Authors. Published by EBSCO. Teaching English: Listening Skills Lucia Ibatulina Kazan Federal University, Institute of International Relations, History and Oriental Studies, Kazan, Russian Federation. Irina Kondrateva Kazan Federal University, Institute of International Relations, History and Oriental Studies, Kazan, Russian Federation. Elmira Galiullina Kazan Federal University, Institute of International Relations, History and Oriental Studies, Kazan, Russian Federation. Roza Rakhmatullina Kazan Federal University, Institute of International Relations, History and Oriental Studies, Kazan, Russian Federation. Abstract The paper presents the overview of the features of perception of sounding speech and bilingual students’ phonetic difficultie s while listening English speech. The issue is relevant and of considerable interest for teaching English as a foreign language. The difference between language systems and other factors such as Intonation system may cause problems in perception of foreign speech. The aim of the paper was to find out the phonetic difficulties for Russian and Tatar students with listening tasks. Distinction between a visual and acoustical image of the word also considerably complicates understanding during listening. Research problems in the paper were: 1) to follow psychological difficulties during perception and understanding of the spontaneous speech; 2) to find solutions of reducing phonetic difficulties of listening; 3) to improve the development of auditory memory and listening skills by bilingual students. © 2017 The Authors. Published by EBSCO. Keywords: Education, student, learning, teacher, listening, university, bilinguals Introduction Listening, perception and understanding of foreign speech has always been very important for the process and the purpose of communication. The questions of forming students’ ability to percept information are much spoken among methodologists and educators. There is a positive influence of oral skills’ training on reading abilities (Alazard, Astésano and Billières, 2010). Development of Internet and technical opportunities increased the role of listening sounding speech information as means of communication between people and one of the types of speech activity. Relevance of the problem chosen as an object of research is explained by the low level of formation of listening abilities of special information, academic, scientific or social by students of University, despite much attention is paid to formation of these abilities and considerable number of the methodical works were devoted to this problem. One of the reasons of low perceiving abilities is a fact that many students of Kazan (Volga region) Federal University are native Tatars and have definite difficulties in perceiving speech in English. Globalization in all spheres of our life, development of cultural, scientific, economic world demands knowledge not of one and not of two, but more languages. By the end of the second year students have to understand lectures in both Russian and