Implementation of Boadcast in the Teaching and Learning Process

Week 3: Blending technologies in ESL courses: A reflexive enquiry; Integrating CALL into the classroom: the role of podcasting in an ESL listening strategies course

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There are different skills that teacher wants to develop with their students, and this article is focused on the listening skill, providing information about the implementation of boadcasts during the lessons, providing the best examples of how it can work. Information on the article suggest that the implementation of boadcast in the learning and teaching process may provide different benefits for students, such as: Exposure to spoken language and a multitude of characteristics; A range of resources, including both purpose-built and authentic materials; Exposure to the culture of the areas where the target language is spoken; An engaging set of materials that could be tailored to an adequate length. As a matter of fact, this pedagogical method allows to take students envolved in classes topic, providing them a different way to develop their listening skills. However, the studies show that students do not take in consideration the way in which the ITC's tools are involved on classes, they sometimes feels indiferent in the practice with technologies to put into practice the lessons or look for information, using softwares to practice or just for study the classes.

There are some hidrances to technology integration, those are the principal aspects that make difficult this process. For instance; insufficient time, lack of relevant, institution development, lack of on-site technology support, inadequate or no access to necessary hardware or software, and receiving few rewards for efforts. Those hidrances are the ones that makes difficult the implementation of that technique. Even thougt it can be monitoriated by teachers on lessons class, to help students to keep themselves motivated and concentrated on topics.