This paper describes speech recognition techniques that enable a Web 2.0 service “PodCastle” where users can search and read transcribed texts of podcasts, and correct recognition errors in those texts. Most previous speech recognizers had difficulties transcribing podcasts because podcasts include various kinds of contents recorded in different conditions and cover recent topics that tend to h...

Radio drama is becoming famous again due to the availability of numerous digital venues such as podcasts. Therefore, a study conducted find out effects radio on ESL learning according respondents’ gender. The respondents were guided in creating and producing their whereby language instructor monitored them during process. After successful production drama, set questionnaires was distributed Eng...

the present paper investigated the effectiveness of concept mapping as a learning strategy on efl students’ self-regulation (metacognitive self-regulation, time and study environment, effort regulation, peer learning, and help seeking). sixty university students participated in the study. they were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups, each including thirty students. they were a...

Finding worthwhile podcasts can be difficult for listeners since podcasts are published in large numbers and vary widely with respect to quality and repute. Independently of their informational content, certain podcasts provide satisfying listeningmaterial while other podcasts have little or no appeal. In this paper we present PodCred, a framework for analyzing listener appeal, and we demonstra...

Nowadays the main learning resources are traditional board, slides and video podcasts. Each of them with their own strengths and weaknesses. Analysing the advantages and disadvantages of the traditional board and slides we have created, with the advantages of both resources, a new concept that we have named “minimalist slides”. Using the minimalist slides we have introduced a new type of video ...

Lecture recordings have been used for teaching purposes for several years and different ways of distribution have been investigated at the universities in Osnabrueck. A blended learning approach based on lecture recordings has been developed in which the recordings substitute the classroom lectures. Building blocks of that concept are podcasts, web lectures, electronic examinations and coaching...

the salient, and often ignored, role that out-of-class learning plays in second/foreign language (l2) learners’ development is overshadowed by classroom research. the main aim of this study is to problematize the role of out-of-class learning in the specific english-as-foreign-language (efl) context of iran by examination of the ways in which four learners attempted to revamp their english lang...