Podcast-based lessons: a useful tool to improve university students’ descriptive oral skills

Podcast-based lessons: a useful tool to improve university students’ descriptive oral skills

This article aims to analyze the impact of using podcast-based lessons in order to improve descriptive oral skills in a cohort of Chilean tertiary education students. The participants underwent four synchronous podcasting sessions in which feedback was provided using an eight-criteria analytic rubri...

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Main Authors: Sandoval Zapata, Marcos Marcelo, Díaz Larenas, Claudio
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica 2020
Online Access:https://revistas.tec.ac.cr/index.php/comunicacion/article/view/5260
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spelling REVCOMUNICACION52602020-07-04T08:28:20Z Lecciones basadas en podcasts: una herramienta útil para mejorar la competencia oral descriptiva en estudiantes universitarios Podcast-based lessons: a useful tool to improve university students’ descriptive oral skills Sandoval Zapata, Marcos Marcelo Díaz Larenas, Claudio Habilidades orales retroalimentación podcasting inglés Oral skills feedback podcasting English Education This article aims to analyze the impact of using podcast-based lessons in order to improve descriptive oral skills in a cohort of Chilean tertiary education students. The participants underwent four synchronous podcasting sessions in which feedback was provided using an eight-criteria analytic rubric. At the end of the intervention, a focus group was conducted, in order to collect the participants’ perceptions on the new methodology. Their responses evidenced that this methodology was a valuable complement to their EFL classes, being pronunciation and fluency the criteria they perceived as the most benefitted. Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica 2020-06-30 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo revisado por pares application/pdf https://revistas.tec.ac.cr/index.php/comunicacion/article/view/5260 10.18845/rc.v29i1-2020.5260 Revista Comunicación; Vol. 29 Núm. 1-2020 (41); 52-68 1659-3820 0379-3974 spa https://revistas.tec.ac.cr/index.php/comunicacion/article/view/5260/4910
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title_short Podcast-based lessons: a useful tool to improve university students’ descriptive oral skills
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title_full_unstemmed Podcast-based lessons: a useful tool to improve university students’ descriptive oral skills
title_sort podcast-based lessons: a useful tool to improve university students’ descriptive oral skills
title_alt Lecciones basadas en podcasts: una herramienta útil para mejorar la competencia oral descriptiva en estudiantes universitarios
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publishDate 2020
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