Podcasts in the development of listening and speaking skills in English language teaching of bachelor students

In the context of digitalization in the modern system of higher education, the search of new forms and means of teaching is especially relevant. The use of podcasts can become an effective means of the development of the foreign language communicative competence. There are considered the theoretical and methodological foundations of the integration of the podcasts in the development listening and speaking skills. There is analyzed the technology of dealing with podcasts in the process of the English language teaching.