Geoff’s EFL Blog

(1) Student activity: transcribing and analysing a podcast
On Thursday, 9 – 10 am, my main class, GO5 pre-intermediate general English course, had their one hour of the week in the computer lab. with me. I got them to listen to themselves on a previous podcast, transcribe what they heard in Word, and correct their mistakes. [...]

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Wow!
Got a message from Richard Green (JRGreen, Int’l Speech Communication http://nitantiao.podomatic.com/), that his class had posted a Valentine’s Day message at his podomatic site, for us podcasters at the Bardwell Road Centre. There is an audio podcast, and also a video version, in RealPlayer format, which I watched. Here’s the link:
Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone from [...]

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Posted the Valentine’s Day episode earlier tonight.
http://bardwellroad.podOmatic.com/entry/2006-02-10T11_49_07-08_00
1. Language mistakes
The issue of linguistic mistakes in unscripted student-produced podcasts nags at me. I’ve never been much of a believer in the effectiveness of correction of oral mistakes. But in a podcast, there they are, and as I work on the audio content, I start to notice them [...]

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Angela Vilarino will be the host for the next podcast.
Valentine’s Day is coming up next Tuesday, and the plan we’ve concocted is for her to get people talking about Valentine’s Day, or the equivalent, in their country, and also about related topics of relations between (young) men and women.
She showed me a scripted introduction she’d [...]

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