Development of students' auditive skills by means of educational english-language podcasts

Abstract

The article is devoted to the formation and development of auditory skills in high school students through English-language podcasts posted on the Learn English by the British Council and The English We Speak websites. The authors analyzed the podcasts from the standpoint of didactic and methodological characteristics. In the course of the study, the authors used the structure of work on listening texts already developed by the methodologists A. Bochkareva and I. Valueva, namely: pre listening, while-listening and post-listening. At this stage, the teacher should inform the topic of the podcast and introduce students to the topic of the text. The teacher needs to start with a short conversation, giving the students the task of trying to determine what information they already have on the problem being studied, to make a list of questions that they would like to receive answers to. This is also a listening task, as the students will be looking for these answers, and the teacher can always adjust the discussion in the right direction and pose questions that are answered in the audio message. Here you can also introduce students to the vocabulary that is necessary for understanding the text.