DEVELOPING LISTENING SKILLS VIA LEARN ENGLISH TEENS RESOURCES

Abstract

Currently, foreign language teachers have a wide arsenal of tools for effective and interesting teaching of a foreign language. In order to arouse students’ interest in learning a foreign language and diversify the educational process, it is necessary to go beyond the recommended educational and methodological complex and use additional materials, including electronic resources posted on the Internet. This research considers the possibilities and effectiveness of using an additional didactic tool for developing foreign language listening skills – the Learn English Teens electronic resource. In the context of our research, we have considered the definitions of the concept of ‘listening’ proposed by different researchers and studied the ways to develop listening skills. In the course of studying the issue of developing listening skills, we identified the difficulties in developing this speech skill, identified didactic possibilities for using various electronic resources to develop listening skills, and also considered the structure of tasks for listening presented on the Learn English Teens website. As part of an experiment conducted among 1st year students of Pavlodar Pedagogical University named after Alkey Margulan, the effectiveness of using this electronic resource in the process of developing listening skills was tested.

Currently, foreign language teachers have a wide arsenal of tools for effective and interesting teaching of a foreign language. In order to arouse students’ interest in learning a foreign language and diversify the educational process, it is necessary to go beyond the recommended educational and methodological complex and use additional materials, including electronic resources posted on the Internet. This research considers the possibilities and effectiveness of using an additional didactic tool for developing foreign language listening skills – the Learn English Teens electronic resource. In the context of our research, we have considered the definitions of the concept of ‘listening’ proposed by different researchers and studied the ways to develop listening skills. In the course of studying the issue of developing listening skills, we identified the difficulties in developing this speech skill, identified didactic possibilities for using various electronic resources to develop listening skills, and also considered the structure of tasks for listening presented on the Learn English Teens website. As part of an experiment conducted among 1st year students of Pavlodar Pedagogical University named after Alkey Margulan, the effectiveness of using this electronic resource in the process of developing listening skills was tested.