Podcasts, voice tools & audio recorders
Podcasts
are audio recordings about different topics posted online. You can find
podcasts about personal experiences, teachings, religion, music comments, film
reviews, short stories or even novels and so on… People usually download
podcasts to their portable players to listen to them anywhere anytime.
The Office of Instructional Consulting at Indiana University, School of Education affirms that:
Finally, it is important to note that you do NOT need an iPod to create or listen to podcasts! In fact a 2005 Bridge Ratings consumer survey found that over 80% of users simply listen to downloaded podcasts on their computer or laptop and the podcasts never make it to an iPod or other digital media device. Source
Podscasts
are an interesting way to learn languages. You can develop your listening
skills while having fun listening to short stories or series or whatever you want. In
that way, you work on your pronunciation unconsciously. But also you can
practice speaking if you podcast.
Here you have my intro
There are
many voice tools and audio recorders available on internet. In some of them,
such as Voxopop you can join or start discussions.
My
discussion
Discussion » Web 2.0 tools
EFL
teachers should take advantage of it, either if they start audio discussions
online or they recommend podcasts to their students for them to practice
English while having fun. It can help
to the motivation.
Here you
have an interview about personality factors in EFL acquisition:
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