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In this article they examined the use of Podcasts in a foreign language classroom. Podcasts have been used to critique student projects and exams, for student video presentations, for student paired interviews, to complete specific assignments, dictations, in roundtable discussions, or for guest lectures. I believe that podcasts could be so important for foreign language classrooms. There is rarely an instant where students get to see hands on the use of the langauge while in the classroom. I believe podcasts are useful also because students are so used to using phones and ipods that incorporating them into instruction can make the lesson more interesting for the student. Many of the videos and technolgy used in foreign language classrooms today is so outdated, it uninterest students and students become more preoccupied with what they look like than what they are saying.
M'hammed Abdous, Margaret M Camarena, Betty Rose Facer. (2009). MALL Technology: Use of Academic Podcasting in the Foreign Language Classroom. ReCALL : the Journal of EUROCALL, 21(1), 76-95. Retrieved February 14, 2009, from Research Library database. (Document ID: 1638362631).