Teaching Listening by Using Podcasts : Cultural shock

As we know, one of main skill in learning English is listening. By listening, learner can comprehend and understand when they have conversation. As a teacher, we should choose sufficient and effective tool to teach listening. one of tool that we can use in teaching listening is podcast.

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Do you know what is podcasts? Podcasts is a digital media that have some episodes. it could be form of audio, video, PDF or ePub files subscribed and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile device.The word is a portmanteau of "(i)Pod" and "broadcast.". Sometimes, podcast is used by teacher to examine and train students' ability in their listening skill. Most of teachers try to experience to use this tool to help students comprehend what the speakers said through conversation on podcast. Podcast also can enrich students vocabularies and help their pronunciation. Few weeks ago, my group created a podcast to exercise our listening skill. Here, we decided to listen streaming. So, we uploaded to soundcloud. Hopefully you enjoy and help you to increase your listening skill.  Now, you can listen the audio below