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The article addresses the issue of teaching independent listening comprehension in the emergency distance education (EDE) caused by Covid-19 pandemic. The paper describes the preliminary study of developing university students' listening skills in on-line instruction mode. The authors consider the main challenges that practitioners face while building students' listening skills. These include difficulties ranging from text selection, linguistic and conceptual complexities of authentic audio/video materials and task construction to organizing listening practice beyond the classroom as well as checking students' comprehension upon listening/viewing. The hypothesis of the research states that due to the enhanced digital literacy of teachers and learners as a result of EDE listening could be practiced effectively in the asynchronous format as an independent activity. This would allow learners a certain degree of autonomy and would spare the virtual contact time for practicing oral production and interaction in the synchronous mode. The authors have surveyed 75 second-year students of Linguistics at three Ukrainian universities to elicit their perceptions of the on-line instruction effects on the development of four language skills and listening in particular. The survey also gave the possibility to elicit preferences in topics, text types and sources in independent listening practice, as well as views on organization of independent listening (frequency of listening practice sessions, length of texts, etc.). The survey findings presented in this article helped the authors to outline the parameters of the independent listening that would benefit the development of students' listening skills and consequently develop the methodology of teaching these skills independently. The latter has already been designed and implemented in practice, thus making up a focus of further research.
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In scientific and practical terms, the comparison of methods based on different theoretical and methodological foundations is of particular relevance. It should be noted that most of the globally recognized methods do not have a reliable and valid Russian-language version, which sets the task of validating the corresponding tools. The work is devoted to the development and testing of the Russian-language version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale, which makes it possible to identify the severity of anxiety about coronavirus infection. Testee: 463 people, including patients of medical institutions repurposed for the treatment of COVID-19 (66 people) Methods: Fear of COVID-19 Scale (Ahorsu, Lin, Imani, et al., 2020), Impact of Event Scale by M. Horowitza, adapted in Russia in 1998 by M. Sh. Magomed-Eminov (Magomed-Eminov, 2008).
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Research in the field of psychological health during the Covid-19 pandemic plays an important role in determining the general stress level and identifying the need for psychological helping. The numerous data all over the world claim that people need for support during the ongoing crisis. Therefore, there is an increasing need for rapid identification of individuals suffering psychologically for more effective and purposeful interventions and systematic assistance to the patients without psychiatric disorders. A similar tool for identifying and monitoring the assessment of the level of distress specific to Covid-19 is the Covid-19 Peritraumatic Distress Index (CPDI) developed by researchers at the Shanghai Mental Health Center (Qiu et al, 2020), It was also tested in Iran, Italy, India, Germany, Spain. The Covid-19 Peritraumatic Distress Index was adapted in Russia in 2020 by the Department of Psychological Helping and Resocialization of the Psychology Faculty at Lomonosov Moscow State University (under the supervision of prof. M. Sh. Magomed-Eminov). Subjects: 463 people, including 66 patients of medical institutions repurposed for the treatment of COVID-19. Results. The Russian-language version of the questionnaire presented in the article has high reliability-consistency (Cronbach's a -0.87). The factor structure includes five factors. The convergent validity of the technique shown by its connection with the severity of traumatic tendencies of avoidance and invasion (according to the diagnostic criteria of post-traumatic stress disorder). CPDI is supposed to be effective brief instrument for diagnosing and modelling the strategies of helping and psychological support for various population groups involved in continuing pandemic crisis. Authors propose cultural-activity and meaning approach to personality work with his\her own traumatic experience to resist distress, but also show courage, resilience, personality growth.