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Podcasts for Language Learning Categories from Nurmukhamedov & Sadler (2012) Below are some current podcasts that may be helpful in language learning. Help add to this list with podcasts you find or use on your own. If you like, please add descriptions of the podcasts. Including a link is optional as most of these podcasts are hosted on their own sites (optionally listed below) and listed in iTunes. 1. Discrete category: focused on a specific topic, often one speaker, short podcasts ● Just Vocabulary Podcast (justvocabulary.com) ● Grammar Girl (grammar.quickanddirtytips.com) ● Merriam Webster’s Word of the Day (merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/) ● Real Life English ESL Podcasts (reallifebh.com/real-life-english-esl-podcasts) ● Splendid Speaking (http://splendidspeaking.podomatic.com/)

2. ESL-focused: Speech adjusted, supplemental materials, transcripts. ● Culips ESL Podcast (culips.com) ● Breaking News English Podcast (breakingnewsenglish.com) ● Podcastsinenglish (podcastsinenglish.com) ● ESL Podcast (http://www.eslpod.com/website/index_new.html) ● Elllo.org podcast http://www.elllo.org/english/Podcast.htm ● Intermediate Level Podcasts http://www.eltpodcast.com/archive/ic ● The Internet TESL Journal Podcast List: includes a list of podcasts for both native speakers and ESLers (http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Listening/Podcasts/) 3. General audience: most podcasts, based around topic or presenter(s), or series of speakers. (Include a short description of the topic if necessary) ● TED Talks (http://www.ted.com/talks/list) ● PSYCH 101 (oyc.yale.edu/psychology/introduction-to-psychology) ● Speculative Grammarian Podcast (http://specgram.com/podcast.xml)- The Onion of linguistics ● This American Life (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast) ● This I Believe (http://thisibelieve.org/podcasts/) ● Science Friday (http://www.sciencefriday.com/audio/scifriaudio.xml) ● RadioLab (http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/) ● The Moth (http://themoth.org/about/programs/the-moth-podcast) ● On Being (http://www.onbeing.org/podcast/help) (Formerly Known As Speaking of Faith) ● Good Food (from KCRW) (http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/gf) ● List of all KCRW podcasts (http://www.kcrw.com/podcasts) ● StoryCorps (http://storycorps.org/podcast/) ● Stuff you missed in history class (http://www.howstuffworks.com/stuff-you-missed-inhistory-class-podcast.htm)

4. ESL Super Podcasts: Multiple podcasts published by large organizations with teaching materials. ● BBC Learning English (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/) ● Voice of America (http://learningenglish.voanews.com/)

Other stuff: Student-generated podcasts ● Bardwell Road Student Centre Podcast (http://bardwellroad.podomatic.com/) ● An example of student created podcasts from the University of Macau’a English Language Centre (http://www.umac.mo/elc/learning/elodcast.html) Ideas for/research on teaching with podcasts ● Fox, A. (2008). Using Podcasts in the EFL Classroom. TESL-EJ, 11(4). Retrieved from http://tesl-ej.org/ej44/a4.html Podcast creation site: http://www.podbean.com/ Charlotte Narrative and Conversation Collection (not a podcast, but a large corpus of stories told by individuals, with transcripts of the conversations): http://newsouthvoices.uncc.edu/nsv/narratives