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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Autores principales: Sandoval Zapata, Marcos Marcelo, Díaz Larenas, Claudio
Formato: Online
Idioma:spa
Publicado: Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica 2020
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.tec.ac.cr/index.php/comunicacion/article/view/5260
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title_short Podcast-based lessons: a useful tool to improve university students’ descriptive oral skills
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