week 3

The integrations of podcast in the classroom.

Now in days we can find different technological advances, and teachers have to implement those resources to make the class more interesting or attract student’s attention and aid the learns to develop their English skill. One of the resources are the podcast that aid student to develop listening skill Throughout many language programs; listening skills are taught with the use of audiotape cassettes for use either in the whole classroom or for use by the individual student. The advantage of the uses of podcast is that ESL (English as a Second Language) is achieve to students using record that are made by native speaker. This allowed students to acquire the authentic language. Also, teaching listening in the second language classroom is a multi-purpose activity because learners must use this resource for ‘learning to listen’ and for ‘listening to learn’. This mean that can be built such as project (e.g., discerning the opinions of several experts in a particular topic area), or a task (e.g., following oral directions in map reading), as a resource (e.g., honing the ability to distinguish amongst discrete sounds) or as a stimulus for related work in other skill areas (e.g., listening to a lecture and then writing up a summary before having to deliver an oral presentation). Furthermore, there were a range of cultural, organizational, psychological, and social barriers to integration of technology. For instance, insufficient time, lack of relevant institution development, lack of on-site technology support, inadequate or no access to necessary hardware or software, and receiving few rewards for efforts. But, this is related to the teacher’s environment. However, the technological approaches aid students to interact more. E.g. students can create their own podcast as a way to practice speaking, listening ad writing in some case. Moreover, podcast is really accessible for pupils they can make use of this through an Apple iPod, computers, smartphones and other portable MP3 players. To conclude, as futures teachers we have to take advantages to the technological resources and take account this meaningful tool “Podcast” that can aid us to develop English skills in students since it allows for the provision of information in multiple modes in order to enhance pupils ‘understanding and retention of listening strategies. Also, give learners access to outside perspectives; whether from other language learners or professors, that stress the importance of the strategies they are learning in class. And provide examples of lectures or conversations by native and nonnative English speakers to help them to practice their listening comprehension.

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