Podcasts in teaching a foreign language
This paper addresses the issue of the use of podcasts in teaching a foreign language to secondary school and university students. The author: a) gives definition of the term "podcast"; b) describes didactic characteristics and methodological functions of podcasts in teaching a foreign language; c) discusses the typology of texts for developing listening and speaking skills via podcasts; d) develops an algorithm of the development of speaking and listiening skills via using podcasts in language teaching; e) suggests a list of listening and speaking skills, chihch can be developed by using podcasts in a foreign language teaching.