Teaching English
Using Podcasts
Incorporate this popular language medium into your English lessons!
In this course, you’ll gain a better understanding of the techniques podcasts employ, such as interviewing, narration, and storytelling. You’ll also learn how to create activities around podcasts that involve learners in the topics they truly enjoy and help them develop key listening strategies.
Course Curriculum
Module 1 Promoting Listening Skills and Strategies by Using Podcasts
Module 2 Brining Podcasts into the Classroom
Module 3 Unleashing Your Students’ Creativity: Making Podcasts in the Classroom
Learning Objectives
When you graduate, you’ll be able to:
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Identify podcasts to use in the EFL classroom and how to select them
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Describe listening skills and listening strategies (including top down and bottom up listening processes)
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Describe the linguistic advantages and disadvantages of using podcasts in class
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Explain how to design and apply creative activities using podcasts in class
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Explain how to create different activities for making podcasts in class as student projects
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List the necessary steps for creating podcasts as an academic tool or activity
Requirements to take this course:
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18 years of age.
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An intermediate or higher level of English proficiency (B1 level, according to the CEFR, the Common European Framework Reference for Language).
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Teaching experience or a general TEFL/TESOL certificate (recommended).
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