Yardsticks for Evaluating ELT Pod/Vodcasts in Online Materials Development and Their Implications for Teacher Education and Art Assisted Language Learning

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Pantea Hashtroodi ¹ , Massood Yazdanimoghaddam ²

1 - Department of English Language, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Islamic Azad University, Garmsar Branch

Received: 2020-06-17 Accepted : 2020-06-17 Published : 2020-01-01

Keywords: Podcasts, AALL, Pod/vodcasting, Teachers as online materials developers, Vodcasts,

Abstract :

ELT online materials development, which is a multifaceted multidisciplinary area, is not welcomed by many teachers, because it is demanding, challenging and confusing. They fear facing new technologies in their teaching sessions to avoid failing or being caught by other audiences. Furthermore, they struggle hard in evaluating their pod/vodcasts. In order to remove the fears and barriers, this qual+quan study con- siders the personality types, natural potentials to perceive abstract problems, tendency towards being as- sertive/passive and level of intelligence of 10 IAU professors by asking them to answer four types of questionnaires. They were interviewed and asked to develop podcasts and vodcasts before and after re- ceiving one-month treatments, which were the researchers‟ self-made pod/vodcasts and YouTube‟s short movies about Art Assisted Language Learning (AALL) on the Telegram group, MArt. To evaluate their products, two sets of checklistswere developed based on the codes derived from the interview, the re- searchers‟ studies of the present literature, a panel of ELT experts and two film directors‟ ideas that re- sulted infive main categories of „quality‟, „teacher/presenter features‟,„technical features‟,„scientific fea- tures‟ and „marketing‟. These evolutional yardstickswill hopefully pave the way for online materials de- velopers to reflect on their pod/vodcasts before being analyzedby their audiences worldwide, and to rec- ognize their style of presentation to see whether they are more successful in audio presentation and/or visual one.

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