Podcast as Teaching Listening

In English, there are four skills that must be mastered, namely speaking, listening, reading and writing. The four skills are related to each other. In these four skills, listening is a skill that is often considered difficult by students. This is because sometimes we don't focus on listening to native speakers, so we won't understand what is being said. It often happens, because the conversation in the listening session is considered boring and even the speaker is too fast. Thus, the teacher must be able to make interesting listening learning.

There are so many ways to make listening learning interesting, such as listening to music, movies, dialogues, or even podcasts. However, in this digital era, podcasts are preferred by children or even teenagers than dialogue. This is because the delivery on podcasts feels more relaxed but the meaning can be understood easily. Nowadays, we have seen quite a lot of free podcasts on the internet, for example on Spotify and Soundcloud. Or even we can create our own podcast because there are many platforms that provide creating our own podcast. Podcasting platforms are audacity and anchor. So, we don't have trouble finding materials to teach listening. With podcasts, it is very easy for us to teach listening.

Click here for the example of collaborative podcast as teaching listening about culture shock.