М.А. Писаревская

TEACHING STUDENTS LISTENING COMPREHENSION USING SOCIAL NETWORKS

Authors

М.А. Писаревская

Keywords:

teaching foreign language, listening skills and abilities, set of exercises for listening in English, Internet technologies, social network, speech community

Abstract

The problem of formation of auditory skills in students of higher education institutions with the help of a social network is studied. A set of listening exercises integrated into the Vkontakte social network has been developed and tested, and its effectiveness is evaluated. The didactic potential of network services for teaching English and, in particular, listening is analyzed. Experimental work was carried out. A set of listening exercises has been developed for students of the training program 37.03.01 «Psychology» with the level of proficiency in English Pre-Intermediate (A2), which is located in the language community «BoostyourListeningHere». The conditions of work in this community for mastering auditory skills and skills in English are defined

TEACHING STUDENTS LISTENING COMPREHENSION USING SOCIAL NETWORKS