Taking students’ generational characteristics into consideration and in response to our students learning needs of having more authentic, level-appropriate and mobile-optimised listening materials, Chengchen conducted an action research with a mixed research methodology to investigate the effectiveness of learning English via teacher-created English podcasts. This teacher-created podcast was designed based on multimodality pedagogy to enable students to improve their authentic language learning experience and explore the obscure EAP topics in a more relatable and friendly context. Throughout this research, five original teacher-created podcast episodes were created based on the topics covered in XJTLU Year 1 CORE syllabus and one episode was released every week to three teaching groups, a total of 76 students, via the university’s VLE platform. Pre-study surveys, weekly surveys, post-study surveys and focus group interviews were conducted throughout the research to understand students’ podcast listening experience for each episode and their perception of the effectiveness of learning English via this modality input. This research finds that students’ self-perceived language confidence increased and their ability of relating syllabus topics to a wider social context also improved. The research findings support further design and application of multimodality teaching approaches in TNE language learning context.

Authors:
Chengchen Qian, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

About the Presenter(s)
Ms Chengchen Qian is a University Assistant Professor/Lecturer at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in China

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