basic concepts

A podcast is

• An easy-to-create audio files that can be uploaded to the Internet and to which users can subscribe.

• An audio file that requires deep technical skills and complex and expensive equipment

• An audio fue that only big broadcasting companies can create

• I have no idea

Some factors that have contributed to the popularity of podcasts are (you can choose more than one)

• The expansion of broadband and wireless connectivity

• The ease and relatively low cost to produce them

• The adoption of podcasting by major media broadcasters

• The shift towards increasingly mobile devices

Which of the following you think are the benefits of using podcast for education?

• To distribute lecture material

• To distribute material for review

• To distribute the missed information

• To empower students by giving them opportunities to create and publish for a real audience

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement:

"podcasting can be used to facilitate recording and distributing news broadcasts, developing brochures, creating or listening to teachers’ notes, recording lectures distributed directly to students’ MP3 players, recording meeting and conference notes, supporting student projects and interviews, and providing oral history archiving and on-demand distribution." (Meng, 2005)

• I agree

• I disagree

• I don't know

Choose the theoretical underpinning of SLA that podcasting has

• Output

• Feedback

• To listen multiple times and edit

• To comment on classmates’ recordings

Choose whether you agree or disagree with the following statement:

THERE IS A LINK BETWEEN COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION AND THE ADVENT OF Web 2.0 TOOLS (Lin, 2014)

• I agree

• I don't agree

• I'm not sure

CMC is helpful to develop

• listening and reading skills

• pronunciation and grammar

• writing and speaking skills

• any language skill

CMC refers to communication that is

• multimodal

• Internet-mediated

• real-timed

• delayed

Write a definition of synchronous and asynchronous modes of communication and provide at least one example for each concept.

Which of the following can be the benefits of synchronous and asynchronous modes of communication

• Enhance linguistic interaction and

• Produce a large amount of language output

• More talking time per learner, and more amount ofoutput and lexicon

• Enable extensive learner-to-learner negotiation