Week 3

Thursday, February 2nd 2017

Podcasting the Innovate Method to Improve Listening Strategies Courses.

Alejandra Carolina Amaya Valle

Week 3:

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This article was very interesting and important for me because give a variety of insights that we can use as a future educators in listening courses. It mentions that even though, CALL is used to supplement instruction or to provide additional practice to the students, Podcasting is a collection of files (usually a video and audio).This is   a new method in which nowadays is seen as a potential resource for all the professors thus, helping students as an extra practice not only in classroom but also in their houses.

The reading remarks that although, in these days technology is everywhere; there are many people who have problems with the lack of support or contact with the computer technology. According to what I read before there was a disconnection between what students were doing with CALL and about what they were doing in the previous classes so, due to this the article make inference in all the benefits and advantages that using a podcasting has .

Something very relevant for me about The second article Blending Technologies in ESL course:  was that technology is becoming one of the best partner of education. But we as a teachers have the responsibility to make a good use of this blend in our class with our students. That´s why the use the podcast inside and outside the classroom is very useful to improve not only the listening skill but the vocabulary and pronunciation.