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Listening is one of the basic communicative competencies and language skills that enable proper functioning of a child in the social and educational environment. This competency, depending on the educational model, is assigned a different meaning, and each of them prefers specific forms of listening. The aim of the following article is to show the need to shape and develop the skills of effective listening in the process of educating children at early school age with the teachers' recognition of the essence of the pedagogical relationship as a subject interaction. The author analyses factors conditioning effective listening, understood on the one hand as a competency conditioning interpersonal communication, and on the other ‒ as a skill whose goals are related to the performance of complex intellectual operations, measured with self-learning competency indicators.