Podcasting by Your ESL Students

Podcasting offers great potential for developing listening/speaking skills through authentic materials and real-world interaction. This presentation was given at CATESOL @ Cal State University at Fullerton, on October 28th, 2006. On this site you will find handouts and links to relevant resources.

Podcasting offers great potential for developing listening/speaking skills through authentic materials and real-world interaction. This workshop will discuss the rationale for using student-created podcasts in the ESL classroom, demonstrate a successful class project (local restaurant reviews), and allow participants to discuss how podcasting technology might apply to their instructional setting.

This presentation was given at CATESOL @ Cal State University at Fullerton, on October 28th, 2006 by Elissa Ikeda and Ted Liu.

Handouts and Links to Relevant Resources:

• Handout (pdf)
• Presentation Slides (pdf)
• Restaurant Review Activity (download entire set as one zip file):
  1. Asking for Opinions (pdf | doc)
  2. List of Restaurants in Westwood (pdf | doc)
  3. Listening Log 1 Vocabulary (pdf | doc)
  4. Recording and Saving Your Podcast (pdf | doc)
  5. Reviewing a Restaurant (pdf | doc)
  6. Westwood Restaurant Review Assignment Instructions (pdf | doc)

Please note: If you click on any of the .doc links above using Mac, it will download to your desktop.

Published: Thursday, October 26, 2006