Chernysh V. Teaching English Reading and Listening using fiction audiobooks (Secondary School Specializing in English)

The dissertation deals with the problem of correlated teaching reading and listening with fiction (FN) audiobooks (AB) with complex usage in intermediate and senior forms of secondary schools specializing in English. Psycholinguistic prerequisites of FN AB usage were concerned: specified the psycholinguistic model of fiction texts perception and comprehension; results of reading and listening analysis generalized, their similarities and divergences, hierarchical structure of general comprehension reading and listening skills, possibility of language material discerning positive transferring from one modality to other; the phenomenon of AB as a specific auxiliary means of fiction reading and listening teaching is considered. Rational principles of FN AB selection are grounded, criteria of chapters choosing for reading, listening and simultaneous reading and listening are motivated. The correlated system of exercises for reading and listening teaching was created. The given system of exercises supposes preservation of AB intact as the work of fiction and aimed at gradual, stage-by-stage reading and listening habits and skills formation and development. The system of exercises effectiveness was based theoretically and corroborated practically. The main aspects of the research were applied in the intermediate and senior forms of secondary schools specializing in English.