Week 3: Podcasts! A good way of developing listening skills.

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Listening is a fundamental skill that we need to develop in  order to communicate better. Listening has always been taught in a traditional way. Whenever you start learning a new language, the listening skill is developed by playing audios with CD players, which is not a practical way to learn and develop that skill because sometimes to hear an audio in that way is boring for some students.

Nowadays, there is a good method of learning and developing the listening skills of students which is by listening to podcasts. There has been reluctance in  the use of podcast when teaching-learning the listening skills however, when podcast are used by teachers to start developing the students' listening skills those get them acquainted with the language they are learning by listening to native speakers in a natural environment and in situations that are related to the real world.

Students can use podcasts to sharpen their listening skills at any time and by using wherever device they feel more comfortable with making it easier for them to learn.