ESL podcast

In Korean elementary school English education, one of the main concerns is about teacher education. Thanks to the wide spread of internet and emphasis on English education, teachers today are armed with materials and methods that help with classroom activities and instruction. However, teaching a language always requires teachers to master the language to a certain level, and since the mastering one language is never an easy job, learning English has always been a money and time consuming challenge.

Now, here is podcast, online free potable broadcast at hand. I believe this could be a great tool for teacher education. Since when I go back to Korea, teaching English for elementary school teachers would be one of my responsibilities, I believe one of these podcast would be a good material for my class. ESL pod is designed for advanced level English learners in that each episode deals with specific situation or topic which gives useful expressions. Usually teachers are already advanced learners and have a good amount of grammar knowledge. However, in EFL environment, it is hard to learn authentic and pragmatic use of the language. With that sense, ESL pod is designed by Native English speakers and provides specific knowledge for more authentic language use. In the class, students and teachers listen to this podcast in advance and develop the language use in the class by doing various activities. Also, students can review just by listening to the episode with their potable devices which save a lot of time for doing that.