Thursday, August 5, 2010

The use of podcasts in achieving fluency

In an earlier blog I mentioned that podcasts could be used by the teacher for choral reading exercises with her class. These podcasts would have recordings of the teacher’s voice and students would be required to mimic her enunciations, pauses and intonations.

Podcasts can also be used to record students, to monitor their progress throughout the academic year. An activity such as Reader’s Theater would entail students performing an oral reading in the presence of their classmates with a script. These recordings can be played back to students to motivate them and give them positive reinforcement as well as to make them aware of the errors they make.

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