TESOL 2010. SPLIS Interest Section

1. Using Podcasts to Integrate Speaking, Listening, and Pronunciation Skills TESOL 2010 Patricia Watts, Lecturer Sue Ingels, PhD Candidate University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thursday, March 25, 2010

3. Integrating Listening, Speaking, and Pronunciation Skills “ How you hear English is closely connected with how you speak English.” Gilbert, 1984, p. 3 Listening and speaking occur together in daily life. Natural interdependence useful for the development of oral proficiency (Murphy, 1991)

4. Integrating Listening, Speaking, and Pronunciation Skills Viewing pronunciation as part of the entire speech communication act (Morley 1994). Canale and Swain’s framework of competency (1980) led to a paradigm shift in pronunciation teaching from isolated focus on linguistic competence to focusing on all four competencies: linguistic, discourse, sociolinguistic, and strategic

5. What is a podcast? Combination of two words: iPod (Apple’s digital music player) and Broadcasting “ Digital audio programs that can be subscribed to and downloaded by listeners” (Carvalho 2008)

14. Sample student performance Imitation of original recording New Quotations created by Ss During my freshman year of undergraduate study, my professor, Su-Han Lu, told us, quote, “A civil engineer who stays in his office all days long cannot be a good engineer.”