Open AccessUsing online streamed audio and podcasting in L2 teaching and learning: how do they work and copyright implications
Author(s) -
A. Rizzi,
Matthew Absalom
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
eurocall newsletter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1695-2618
DOI - 10.4995/eurocall.2007.16361
Subject(s) - active listening , computer science , multimedia , audio equipment , language acquisition , work (physics) , range (aeronautics) , world wide web , mathematics education , sociology , psychology , engineering , mechanical engineering , communication , aerospace engineering , electrical engineering
Providing students with contemporary, up-to-date listening experiences in L2 is an ongoing challenge for language educators. Indeed, much commercially available material is dated or presents language in an idealised and decontextualised way. Audiostreaming provides a wealth of resources which may go some way towards resolving these issues. Contemporary teaching and learning materials on an extremely wide range of topics are easily downloaded from national radio station websites and are accessible via systems such as podcasting. This paper discusses one attempt at integrating these resources into tertiary language courses and demonstrates how these can be easily and efficiently integrated into meaningful online learning tasks. In addition, we discuss the complex issue of copyright and online materials in Australia, UK (Europe) and the US.