This action research which situates itself in the context of Digital Humanities focuses on engaging students of Introductory Chinese course with an assignment to create podcasts in the form of an interview.Requiring s...This action research which situates itself in the context of Digital Humanities focuses on engaging students of Introductory Chinese course with an assignment to create podcasts in the form of an interview.Requiring students to integrate the aural,oral,and textural information via technology so as to carry a conversation with an interlocutor challenges them to convey their thoughts from the language they think in into meaningful ideas using the target language.In this way,students are“pushed”to convert their listening,speaking,and writing from being isolated components into a more dynamic and cohesive mode of communicating.As they explore expressing their ideas in the language they are learning,they develop the skills and sensibility needed to critically analyze their own work.Although limited in scale,the podcast format urges students to transform what they need to learn into a familiar product.展开更多
Podcasts offer diverse content spanning education,entertainment,news,business,sports,and much more,catering precisely to users’personalized interests.IN the fast-paced modern world,people rush through their days as t...Podcasts offer diverse content spanning education,entertainment,news,business,sports,and much more,catering precisely to users’personalized interests.IN the fast-paced modern world,people rush through their days as time fractures into fragmented moments,their eyes glued to screens of all sizes.Against this visual information overload,users seeking professional but more relaxing ways of getting informed are increasingly turning to auditory experiences.展开更多
文摘This action research which situates itself in the context of Digital Humanities focuses on engaging students of Introductory Chinese course with an assignment to create podcasts in the form of an interview.Requiring students to integrate the aural,oral,and textural information via technology so as to carry a conversation with an interlocutor challenges them to convey their thoughts from the language they think in into meaningful ideas using the target language.In this way,students are“pushed”to convert their listening,speaking,and writing from being isolated components into a more dynamic and cohesive mode of communicating.As they explore expressing their ideas in the language they are learning,they develop the skills and sensibility needed to critically analyze their own work.Although limited in scale,the podcast format urges students to transform what they need to learn into a familiar product.
文摘Podcasts offer diverse content spanning education,entertainment,news,business,sports,and much more,catering precisely to users’personalized interests.IN the fast-paced modern world,people rush through their days as time fractures into fragmented moments,their eyes glued to screens of all sizes.Against this visual information overload,users seeking professional but more relaxing ways of getting informed are increasingly turning to auditory experiences.
