Via Joe Dale’s wonderful blog, comes news of two Foreign Language podcasts from a school in Aberdeen, Scotland that have been designed to help students with homework: Bienvenue and Hallo (in French and German respectively).

The advice given about how to use podcasts to help learn vocabulary includes:

  • using the audio as a pronunciation model for for vocabulary they have already come across
  • to revise vocabulary by writing down meanings in the pauses between words or phrases
  • as a subliminal learning tool (just by listening to the podcast, students will start processing the language)

In another post on Joe’s blog, he reproduces feedback from a pupil of another Scottish school’s podcasting project (this time a primary school):
‘In French it is fun using the iPods. We get to listen to the French from the computer and do worksheets.This is more fun than doing work in class. French is my best thing at school.’