Sue has found that there is little research in the area of audiobooks during the course of her research as a doctoral student in Australia. She has chosen to study the benefits of audiobooks for elementary students based on observations from her own children who love to listen to audio stories and her experience as a teacher librarian. One of the main benefits she has found is that they increase the students’ vocabulary, which is particularly beneficial to her international student population. Another significant finding is that the students do not like strong accents and have a preference for professional quality narrated recordings, perhaps because they have had the access to recordings completed by a cast with sound effects and relevant, modern stories. It seems that I can take away from this that, if I was to introduce audiobooks to our school, it would involve difficulties with copyright and access to books that can be shared by multiple users and to solve this then perhaps introducing free podcasts that are available to download without restrictions such as from iTunes is a good first step. I look forward to using audiobooks
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorEmma Ahmed is a learning coach and curriculum coordinator at International Schools. Archives
September 2023
Categories |