Dr. Teodora Genova,
Prof. Dr. Magdalena Garvanova
University of Library Studies and Information Technologies
Sofia, Bulgaria
https://doi.org/10.53656/for2024-02-05
Absract. The article aims to examine audiobooks as an innovative pedagogical tool for building key competencies in English foreign language teaching and learning, namely multilingual, digital, intercultural, personal, social and learning competence. Along with this, an empirical study of the attitudes of English
language teachers towards the use of audiobooks in the process of foreign language teaching is presented. Starting from the theoretical foundations of the competence-based approach in education and passing through the competence-based approach in English foreign language teaching, the authors of the report put audiobooks at the center of their research as an effective and innovative didactic tool, the potential of which has remained unexplored until now for the construction of the overall
linguistic competence of learners in learning English. Partially, this is due to the fact that foreign language teachers are still not familiar with and do not practically apply audiobooks in their pedagogical practice, as indicated by the data of the present study.
Keywords: audiobooks; key competences; competence-based approach; foreign language teaching and learning; English language