The current use of podcasts, as a new channel to input knowledge, has effectively been promoting listening comprehension which consequently has increased the acquisition of target language among learners. The current study investigated the effects of Video-Podcasts integration on listening comprehension, and the effects of varied number of Video-Podcasts on listening comprehension as well as on students’ attitudes. The twelve-week (12) quantitative study employed a quasi-experimental pre-test post-test design. Samples included 120 English major male undergraduates from a University in Saudi Arabia. Three experimental groups were randomly assigned to 5 video-podcasts, 10 video-podcasts, and 15 Video-Podcasts groups to form the experimental group, and a fourth group was treated as the control group. In analysing the data of the current study, ANCOVA, ANOVA and descriptive techniques were employed. Findings showed that the three podcast groups significantly outperformed on the post-tes...

The use of podcasts is growing in the instructions of listening comprehension. However, the success of computer technology generally depends on learners positive attitudes towards it. The present study explored attitudes of Saudi EFL undergraduates toward the use of video-podcasts integration in listening comprehension. Moreover, the study also examined students’ attitude from the perspective of the number of video-podcasts they received in their instructions. Samples included 90 English major male undergraduates divided into three groups. The three groups received five (5), ten (10) and 15 video-podcasts in their listening classes before they answered an attitude questionnaire. ANOVA results revealed that the students had positive attitudes towards the use of video-podcasts in listening. However, no significant difference was found between the attitudes of the three experimental groups who received varied number of video-podcasts in their instructions. Article visualizations:

The purpose of the present study was to explore the effect of podcasts on developing listening comprehension ability among Iranian EFL Intermediate Iranian Arab students. To fulfill the objectives of the study a homogeneity test (Oxford Quick Placement Test) was administered among students at the pre-intermediate level of Smile Language Institute. Two intact classes, namely the control and experimental groups were chosen for the study. The participants of this study were 61 language learners who were selected among pre-intermediate students from Smile English language institute in Chahmobarak, Iran. The control group is containing 30 students and the experimental group of 30 students. Before starting the treatment, a validated teacher-made listening comprehension test was administered to the students as a pre-test to assess the participants' listening comprehension at the beginning of the course. Then, the experimental group received the treatment, which was teaching listening comprehension through using podcasts while the control group was taught using traditional methods of teaching listening with no multimedia source. After 18 sessions of treatment, the two groups were administered the same teacher-made listening test with little modifications as a post-test. The data were analyzed by paired and independent samples t-tests. The findings showed that the experimental group significantly performed better than the control group. Generally, the experimental group outperformed the control group. The results suggest that podcasts can be used in English classes to develop the listening ability among Iranian Arab EFL learners.

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of using educational podcasts on listening comprehension of male language learners in Tehran. The statistical population of the present study consisted of all male language learners of Tehran language colleges who were studying in the academic year 2020-2019. The present study sample consisted of two target languages that were selected purposefully. There were 60 samples, of which 30 were in the control group and 30 in the experimental group. The type of research was quantitative and quasi-experimental with pre-test-post-test design with control group. To understand the required data, a researcher-made audit comprehension test was used. It was used to analyze the obtained data using SPSS software. The results showed that the use of educational podcasts is significantly more effective in increasing the listening comprehension skills of language learners of language schools F = 165/001 than the usual method. Based on the results, it is recommended to use educational podcasts in teaching audio-visual comprehension of learners, which is one of the main problems in language teaching.

This study aimed to investigate the role of podcasts on language development as an indirect educational approach to language in general and listening in particular among Imam Mohammed Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMISIU) EFL beginners. Thus, the purpose of this study lies in its potential effect on students of English by improving the process of introducing them to podcasts as a new input tool. Additionally, it examined how students perceived the use of audio-podcasts outside the classroom. Three questions were addressed in this study via a quantitative approach, a quasi-experimental pre/post-test method. These questions were: 1) What is the effect of using the Podcast Episodic Series of Spoken Word Digital Audio on developing the listening skills of Saudi undergraduate students? 2) How may the podcast facilitate the development of listening comprehension of Saudi undergraduate students? 3) What are Saudi university students’ attitudes towards integrating audio podcasts as a new input tool in the EFL classroom? Study participants in both experimental and control groups were 20 female students studying level two at the College of Languages and Translation (CLT), IMISIU in Saudi Arabia. The findings of the paired sample t-test method showed that there is a relationship between achieving high scores in the listening tests and implementing audio-podcasts as an indirect educational approach. A 10-item questionnaire was used to explore students’ attitudes toward the use of audio-podcasts by using the 5-point Likert scale. The findings showed that respondents have a positive attitude towards integrating audio podcasts as a new language input tool in the EFL classroom. The results also emphasize how imperative it is to incorporate podcasting into the process of developing listening skills to reduce anxiety among EFL learners, familiarize students with how to use the language in real-life situations, and learn the language from its native speakers.

This research has objective to investigate students’ listening comprehension through the use of podcast in EFL classroom. 60 high school students in Indonesia were taken as sample for this research with distribution of 30 students in experiment class and 30 students in control class. The samples were taken by using cluster random sampling. Quasi-experimental method with the post-test only control group design was applied in this research. In addition, a survey questionnaire was administered to experimental group to explore their perception on the use of podcast instruction in teaching listening. Findings revealed that there is a significant difference of post-test score between two groups, favoring experimental group. Data analysis using one way ANOVA showed significance value (sig. 0.010) is lower than < 0.05 which interpreted that Podcast has significant impact on students’ listening comprehension. Additionally, the result of questionnaire indicated that students have positive ...

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