María José López Aguirre
Week 3:
Integrating
CALL into the Classroom: the Role of Podcasting in an ESL Listening Strategies Course.
Blending Technologies in ESL Courses: A Reflexive Enquiry.
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readings from week 3 provide amazing information about the role of podcasting
in listening courses. Podcasts are digital media files delivered over a network
such as audio and videos that can be downloaded and reproduced in all source of
devices (computers, MP3 players, etc.) In education podcasting is becoming
popular due to the fact that it has the potential to foster an effective
integration of in-class and out-of-class teaching and learning process.
The article
“Integrating CALL into the Classroom: The Role of Podcasting in an ESL Listening Strategies Course” presents how the implementation of this phenomenon are
improving the activities and materials into listening lessons. Something I want
to remember from this article is that the use of podcast improve the teaching
process. Teachers can provide students a wide variety of audios that they can
listen out of class in order to review and practice what they have learned. This
learning tool also serve to motivate students by given them control over the
input they receive. Something that surprised me a lot about that is that new
podcast episodes are automatically downloaded to students’ devices once they
have subscribed, so they can easily decide when and how often to listen or
watch it. In the article, “Blending Technologies in ESL Courses: A Reflexive Enquiry”
it is focus on the blending of technology in second language teaching contexts.
Something that caught my attention was that teachers are fixing their syllabus
in order to incorporate this blended approach. They also have to consider some
aspects such as planning and design, or performance issues because that would allow
for specific analyses of impact on learners. To conclude, podcasting is a
potential tool that is becoming popular in listening strategies course.
I agree with you María José when you mention that using podcasts improve the teaching process because they are able to enhance students’ listening abilities and comprehension while they are using devices from daily life, such as mp3 or iPods; which is an advantage for teachers because students will be more motivated and interested in their learning process. Teachers using podcasts give to students the opportunity to face almost real experiences and they also provide the correct pronunciation of the language that is being study in an easier way. I just want to ask you: would you apply podcasts with your students?
ReplyDeleteI agree with Maria Jose I really liked the article because I think that podcasting is very useful to improve listening skills and is very convenient because students can listen it at any time and repeat it as many times as they want, the fact that can be listen in any mp3 producer.
ReplyDeleteWith the use of podcasting students can practice more and if there is any doubt about the listening teacher can clarify the doubts at class. Making students more independent and practice on their own by doing this the teacher is most like a guide in the learning process and help students to be more interest to learn the language because they can listening whenever they want, they feel more motivated because they are learning in a funny way listening the audios that the teacher suggests for practicing at home or anywhere they can listen to the podcasting.
Nice log Maria Jose. Why do you think the article claimed that podcasts give control to students over the input they receive? What does this mean?
ReplyDeleteWell, when they have this type of resources , they become autonomous in their learning and are more willing to look for topics of their interesting or practice what they have learned in class even if the teacher do not ask them to do it.
DeleteThat's right Maria Jose.
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