THE POSSIBILITIES OF USING PODCASTS THE DEVELOPMENT OF LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS IN TEACHING CHINESE

Abstract

The article discusses the use of podcasts in teaching a foreign language to high school students. The dynamism of the development of modern foreign language education has led to the expansion of the range of foreign languages studied at school. Chinese is becoming one of the most popular languages today. It is studied in schools and universities mostly as a second foreign language. Due to its specificity, it requires the development of integrated approaches to its study, to which the works of Yu.E. Arekeeva, K.V. Volkov, N.A. Demina, I.V. Kochergin, etc. are devoted. The study of the methodology of teaching Chinese in such areas of speech activity as speaking and listening is relevant nowadays. The problem of the study is the choice of an algorithm for working with podcasts. The purpose is to consider the potential of podcasts in the development of oral speech activities when teaching Chinese in high school and to determine the algorithm for working with them. The study was conducted on the basis of authentic podcasts in Chinese. The used methods of research, such as theoretical analysis of literature, study of normative documents, observation of the educational process, comparative analysis, led to the following results: the theoretical foundations of the use of podcasts are described; the concepts of “podcast” and its didactic functions are defined; practical aspects of the development of oral speech activities in teaching Chinese are proposed; an algorithm for working with a podcast in a Chinese language lesson is given. The authors concluded the effectiveness of the use of podcasts in teaching Chinese.