Innovative ways of promoting autonomy, reflection, and self-assessment
This webpage illustrates uses of audio-journals and technology in ESP courses (one example from a graduate-level EAPP speaking course and the other for a course for faculty lecturing in English, English for Academic teaching Purposes). Using free digital software to exchange audio files, student-student and student-teacher dialogue assignments include language histories, news transcriptions, analyses of intonation and speaking patterns, and peer and self-assessment. The materials presented here offer practical and productive ways to integrate innovative speaking and listening tasks into various curricula through the use of digital audio-journals.
Using Audio Journals in English for Academic and Professional Purposes
Here are examples of how I used audio journals in a summer intensive oral skills class for graduate students in the English for Academic Purposes program at the Monterey Institute of International Studies during the summer of 2005.
Using Reflective Audio Journals in English for Academic Teaching Purposes
Here is an example of how I have integrated audio journals as reflective listening/speaking practice in an English for Academic Teaching Purposes course for faculty members lecturing in English at the University of Tartu in Estonia during the 2007 spring semester.
