Teaching Listening Using Podcast

One of few things that works well with listening course is podcast. My lecture used this tool during listening course 1 in the first semester and I feel this way is quite successful to enhance student's listening comprehension. The podcast was taken from http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts. As for the assignment in CALL course, we record our own podcast by using Audacity. First, download the application and follow the steps given.

This is a podcast made by my group http://www.4shared.com/mp3/tXYzEcVFce/CALL_USB.html

And here is the transcript 

Ajeng: Good morning friends, I have an interesting story about cultural shock. Well, it was happened when I had a vacation to Jogja. When I ordered a food and I did not know well about Javanese language, unfortunately the seller didn’t know Indonesian well. I was in difficult situation ordering food. What was shocking again was when the food arrived. The taste was truly not my style. It was too sweet to be a food like I used to eat when I’m in Surabaya. Well guys anyone of you have similar situation about cultural shock story?

Harum: Yes I have. My cultural shock experience is about my penpal friend, her name is Isabella. She lives in Lawrence, Kansas. She is still 21 years old just like me, but what makes me shock is that she has lived together with her boyfriend in their apartment for three years. It’s my very first time to have native friend so I’m very surprised. You know in West Country it is legal to live together without marriage, but here in Indonesia it is considered to be illegal. Mmm, does anyone have the same experience as mine?

Elok: Ah! I remember has the similar experience as yours. It was from my Canadian virtual friend. He is a man, 27 and is single. However, he has a son outside marriage. Don’t you think that’s very shocking? I mean, it’s taboo here. But he told me it is legal there. Well, that reminds me a lot of how the famous unmarried couple, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, have their three biologist children. Maybe I’m just a bit startled to find such person myself. Endang take your turn.

Endang: It was happen when I visited my uncle’s home. Something that made me shock was, there are many women did susuran. Susuran is chewing tobacco. In my environment, susuran is done by men only as the supplementary if they won’t to smoke. But, in my uncle’s environment,susuran is done by women to avoid the belief that they will not get a soul mate before they do susuran.

Burhan: In another country, people who enter the home usually wear their shoes or sandal but in Indonesia it is the opposite of that culture. Indonesian people usually put off their shoes or sandal in front of their house. When the foreigners visit Indonesia, they don’t put off their shoes or sandal and in Indonesia the owner of the house asked the foreigner “please put off your shoes or sandal in front of the house”.