Development of listening comprehension skills in teaching German for intermediate students at the University of Economics in Bratislava
Vol.10,No.1(2020)
Jana Kucharová
Ingrid Kunovská
Communicative foreign language learning requires learners to develop all language skills and competences in order to acquire the highest communicative competence in the target language. This also applies to the teaching of professional language. At the faculties of the University of Economics in Bratislava, students take two- to three-term courses of the professional language in two selected foreign languages. German is the second largest foreign language after English at our university. Students choose German primarily as a second foreign language. The level of proficiency is therefore lower, with a maximum B1 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. All the more it is necessary to offer students the opportunity to improve their communication skills by means of various methods, forms and means of teaching and to show them how they can also pursue their own language teaching after attending German language courses in their higher education. Therefore, within the KEGA project (KEGA 005EU-4/2018) we decided to address the issue of developing receptive language skills of listening comprehension in the framework of teaching German for intermediate students at various faculties of the University of Economics in Bratislava. As a means of developing listening comprehension, we have created our own podcast on an existing platform. We used it as a medium, through which we gradually published the recordings with texts for listening with comprehension and various types of tasks to them. In the paper, we present partial results of our work so far and formulate the starting points for further, even deeper examination of the chosen issue.
audio recordings; authenticity; new media; listening comprehension; podcast; tasks
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