Modern Journal of Language Teaching Methods (mjltm) issn: 2251-6204

DISCUSSIONS 
A problem of interaction, cooperation has received considerable attention in the scientific literature. However, 
despite the rapid development of modern information environment in our country, the computerization of the growth 
of all sectors of the economy and the education system, private users computer equipment interfaced to the 
development of the Internet and the increasing number of its members may be noted that higher education in the use 
of modern information technologies currently lags behind the real possibilities and technologies are actively 
introduced in the education system abroad, primarily in the US and European countries. Bridging this gap is an 
urgent problem of pedagogical theory and practice, including in the field of higher education in Russia. Today, in a 
pedagogical science is widely considered the various aspects of the use of information technologies in educational 
process of high school. Conceptual and psychological-pedagogical bases of informatization of education system 
investigated by V.P. Bespal'ko, A.A. Verbitsky, B.S. Gershunskogo, V.V. Davydov, A.P. Ershov, E.I. Mashbitsa, 
E.S. Polat, S. Papert, N.F. Talyzina etc. [2, 6, 7]. Currently, the information resource is considered by researchers in 
the study of the characteristics and properties of information 6 educational, didactic computer environments (J.A. 
Vagramenko, A.A. Kuznetsov, I.V. Robert, A. Petrov and etc.). As part of the information approach, the functions 
and didactic potential of information educational resources. Podcast service has the following didactic properties: 
- the possibility for placing on the Internet at the podcast service personal podcasts of the users; 
- the possibility for creating the user’s personal area at the podcast service (user’s personal area is necessary for 
organizing a network discussion of podcast); 
- the possibility for organizing a network discussion of a podcast in the user’s personal area in the micro-blog; 
- creation of user’s personal area, its approval is carried out by the author of the podcast; 
- placement of comments under the network discussion of a podcast is done chronologically; 
- availability of a podcast for all registered users of the service. Didactic and methodological properties of a podcast 
service that must be considered when developing a method of teaching a foreign language through podcasts are 
presented in the Table 1 (based on the generalization of works by P.V. Sysoyev, M.N. Evstigneev, A.G. Solomatina) 
[12].