The Model of Teaching Listening Skills to Postgraduates with Disabilities and Special Needs in the Educational Podosphere

摘要

Nowadays teaching in the podosphere is becoming even more popular because it attracts the maximum number of students regardless of age, sex, education, abilities; provides access to the educational and methodical materials; supports interaction between teaching staff and students. The podosphere is a more interactive teaching tool than listening to a CD or MP3-player: podcasts are used to develop first listening skills and then communicative skills of postgraduates through discussion of audio and video fragments, creation of individual podcasts through Talk, Audacity, Movavi or iSpring, which improves the quality of education. This paper is aimed at considering some peculiarities of forming listening skills and the advantages of using educational podosphere as an interactive model of forming listening skills among postgraduates, especially among those having specific medical conditions; explaining why it's necessary to form and develop listening skills of postgraduates according to some aspects of federal state standard of training masters. Two last paragraphs contain instructions how to create and use podcasts to teach listening to different kinds of students. In conclusion, authenticity, interaction and profile orientation of this technology increases the effectiveness of forming foreign profile listening competence of postgraduates due to their availability and adaptive options.