Hello, everyone. It's only two weeks from the start of summer school at Columbia College Chicago where I will be teaching two classes, an ESL Speaking and Listening Skills class and a Basic Public Speaking class (a mix of native and non-native English speakers). I plan to use this blog for both classes, with podcasts about both classes. While I've been listening to podcasts, mostly from NPR, for a while, I have never created one before. Today's podcast is a very short introduction of myself, but over time I plan to include more podcasts, both for and from my students.
While listening to and creating podcasts won't be dominant feature of my two summer classes, I plan to use podcasts to provide additional opportunities to use and improve their listening and speaking skills. I'll be creating some podcasts to provide information about Chicago and capture samples of authentice native speech, my students will add podcasts where they respond to what they see and hear around them, having fun and teaching each other in the process.
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