Using Podcast with ESL Students
I believe utilizing Podcasts with ESL students is a great tool to improve and enhance learning the language. Podcasts uses visuals and voice overs to create a teaching moment digitally. Providing visuals and oral language to a concept being learned is very beneficial to language learners because they are seeing the idea and hearing the language associated with the image; or they are simply hearing the language. Furthermore, Podcasts allows for students to learn the material anytime, anywhere since they can be viewed on any device. Podcasts always provides students with access to the content at all times- to review what was taught in class to gain a better understanding or to study and make up for missed class time. Essentially, they can re-listening to a lesson whenever they want, instead of just hearing the concepts once in class. There are several ways that Podcasts can be used with ESL students. A teacher can create or download a Podcast for the students to listen too and creat