POD CASTING IN ACADEMIC WRITING

My goal this past week in my English 101C class was to draw students attention to the fact that they can integrate the development of writing, speaking, listening and reading skills in their writing class. This is to get them stop compartmentalizing the development of these language skills.

I, therefore, introduced them to using Pod casting to report their findings from a survey that they are doing in groups for the EN G 101c class.

They seem enthusiastic about the idea of making an oral presentation in the form of a Podcast which will be 50% of their grade on the survey paper. They will be doing the presentations next week and I am very eager to see how they will do on this task and whether they will be motivated to do something like that on their own for the rest of the projects they will be doing in the class.

If it turns out very good, I will do a pilot study on this for a possible conference paper.