Podcast Novel Helps Students Learn English
Summary
Her students utilize the traditional English class methods such as vocabulary, literary terms, note taking, writing, and analysis and apply them to what they hear each week.I totally believe that I would have been into books much earlier in life if I had someone read them to me.” Earl was thrilled when Moskowitz approached him about using the podcast of The House of Grey in her curriculum.Gene Wolfson, an Associate Professor in the Education Department of Iona College in New Rochelle, NY, stated in his article, Using Audiobooks to Meet the Need of Adolescent Readers, “Audiobooks can model reading, teach critical listening, build on prior knowledge, improve vocabulary, encourage oral language usage, and increase comprehension.” He goes on to say, “With current technology, teachers have the ability to utilize this literacy strategy to offer their adolescent students another medium to read and experience literature in their classrooms.” Other studies done in 2000 and 2001 show that while the majority of teachers sampled were reluctant to use audiobooks in their classrooms, citing a perception that it was lazy, utilizing audiobooks in conjunction with written text only added to a student’s ability to comprehend what they were reading.### Las Vegas, NV, March 21, 2009 --( PR.com )-- If today’s youth are already equipped and able to listen to their iPod’s while riding the bus to school, doing their homework, and even while talking on the phone or to their friends, it seems like a small step for educators to take to supplement those downloads with schoolwork.Gene Wolfson, an Associate Professor in the Education Department of Iona College in New Rochelle, NY, stated in his article, Using Audiobooks to Meet the Need of Adolescent Readers, “Audiobooks can model reading, teach critical listening, build on prior knowledge, improve vocabulary, encourage oral language usage, and increase comprehension.”He goes on to say, “With current technology, teachers have the ability to utilize this literacy strategy to offer their adolescent students another medium to read and experience literature in their classrooms.”Other studies done in 2000 and 2001 show that while the majority of teachers sampled were reluctant to use audiobooks in their classrooms, citing a perception that it was lazy, utilizing audiobooks in conjunction with written text only added to a student’s ability to comprehend what they were reading.Wolfson concludes, “With the availability of iPods and similar audio devices, bringing the audiobook into the classroom becomes very simple and inexpensive.