How podcasting can affect students’ and teachers’ perceptions towards language acquisition at arab open university?

Author: 
Shahala Nassim and Wided Labidi

Podcasting being a simple process of capturing audio events, speech or mix of sounds into a digital sound object has paved different creative ways of practicing language skills. It has a wide acceptance in English language field as a teaching and a learning tool. The paper analyses a study about podcasting, conducted at Arab Open University with Foundation level-2 language students. Students were given a project of producing their own storytelling podcast using the software Audacity. The study aims at analyzing the practicality of students produced podcast by assessing students’ perceptions and teachers’ attitude of integrating podcasting activities in English Language teaching. students had a favorable opinion about podcasting as the task helped them to improve their language skills despite the difficulty in handling the software. Teachers’ findings about the implementation of podcasting in their classrooms was interesting and inspiring in terms of the learning engagement and the challenges they faced.

Paper No: 
2549