1. Have students create a podcast using a script that the teacher has written. This will allow to teacher to hear the student's pronunciation. (student generated)
2. The teacher can create a podcast with a dictation. The student has to listen to the dictation and write down what they hear. (teacher generated)
3. The teacher can create a podcast with vocabulary, sentences, or a poem that he or she wants the students to memorize. With this auditory example, the students can memorize and practice with good pronunciation. (teacher generated)
4. The student can create a podcast teaching the class a grammar lesson. Example: forms and meanings of negatives. (student generated)
5. The student can create a podcast to present facts on a particular person or movement in French culture, such as Impressionism or Toussaint Louverture. (student generated)
2 comments:
These are great ideas, but I think that they focus to much on pronunciation. Perhaps, you could create activities for which students make paodcasts that employ a more meaningful use of language skills. For example, have the students write the script that they will read for the podcast or have them write a script that follows a story that the teacher presented in class.
Similarly, I think that the dictation exercise would be most useful if it was connected to a big idea that the students and teacher have been discussing in class. Also, I am not sure if a podcast would be the best method of giving a dictation because the teacher can not adjust her speaking speed in the podcast whereas when giving the students the dictation in class the teacher can see the students' frustration level and adjust accordingly.
I think that the grammar lesson would be a good idea for upper level students to describe grammar points in French for lower level classes. This way students would be speaking in the target language about a subject that they are more confident speaking about. Whereas a student who just learned a certain grammatical structure may not have the confidence to discuss this knowledge in the target language.
I thought the dictation could work if you gave the students a script with words or phrases missing that they have to fill in. I know in my classes we used songs for that purpose, which some of them go extremely fast, but we would have to stop and rewind or listen to the entire song again.
I'm not so sure about having the students memorize poems or sentences, not that it wouldn't work with podcasts, but I just don't see the purpose of having students memorize things, but maybe thats just because I was never good at it. Its definitely good to have them practice the pronunciacion though.
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