Summary of TPACK-related journal (6)

Title                            : The Use of Podcasts to Enhance Narrative Writing Skills

Author                        : Kinana Qaddour

Year                            : 2017

Publisher                    : English Teaching Forum

Source                        : English Teaching Forum Vol55 N0.4

The backround of this research is the writer’s concern about students’ anxiety when they have to write a narrative text using their own experience. The researcher then introduced podcasts containing some stories from many people to help the students minimally possess ideas and scaffoldings to make a narrative text. The podcasts were taken from StoryCorps managed by NPR (National Public Radio).

The instructions started from giving students task to listen to podcasts more twice a day at home. In the following day, the teacher then asked the students to discuss content of podcasts together with their friends. Students are also suggested to bring notes because there is a possibility that one group should share the content with other groups. After the discussion finished, the students were directed to make an essay based on the discussed-podcast contents. The result of the essay were then assessed by their peers with questions provided by teacher in advance such as “what is conflict in that narrative, is there a resolution in the conflict?” etc. The stream went broader. Students were asked to record their corrected essay and produced podcasts. This could be learning process in storytelling and sepaking skills.