The usage of podcasting technology within extracurricular students’ individual work in the discipline “Foreign language”
The article is devoted to studying the potential of using the podcasting technology as the part of extracurricular students’ individual work in the discipline “Foreign language”. Individual work provides the integral, systematic and interdisciplinary character of educational process, increases students’ motivation for further learning achievements, strengthens the skills of students’ personal-professional self-management and self-checking. The main argument for using podcasts in the process of extracurricular individual work is that podcast as an informational resource meets the general relevant requirements for academic content. It is characterized by subject content (it refers to the specific social subject), linguistic content (acts as a source providing language and speech material) and social-cultural content (it is conducive to acquiring new linguo-culturological knowledge). The author of the study offers the effective algorithm of working with podcasts, which includes three stages. The first stage is a preparatory stage, which implies work with pre-listening vocabulary. The second stage is perceptual-reproductive. It consists of exercises aimed at global and detailed understanding of the text, as well as lexical-grammatical exercises. These exercises are aimed at developing listening skills and receptive lexical-grammatical skills. In the third - productive-reflexive - stage, the author recommends bringing in the additional interactive technology (project method). In this stage, the following skills are developed: the conscious skills to use verbal means according to a particular communicative task, abilities to classify, generalize, determine analogies, to deduce cause-and-effect relations, to form the lines of reasoning and so on. The consistent passing of every stage provides the formation and further development of language, speech and social-cultural competences which constitute the foreign language communicative competence. The usage of podcasting technology in the extracurricular individual work contributes to developing students’ skills of digital literacy, investigative and creative skills, boosts their motivation for selfeducation.