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1 English outside the classroom
The design and delivery of institution specific podcasts Sam Crofts Kwansei Gakuin University, Kobe, Japan

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3 You thinking what I am thinking dear?
Podcasts?!?

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5 NO!

6 Gap

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9 When you watch films in English, do you use subtitles?
(139 respondents)

10 Recording

11 Content Style: Free conversation
Hosts: 3 (including native speaker of students L1) Subject Matter: King Queen Boatman Life in China, Restaurants on campus, Annoying things about university Life in England Love Life Extras: Interview Students, Competition, Polls

12 Driving principle: As few a clicks as possible 
Delivery Determined by Institutional online learning environment Driving principle: As few a clicks as possible 

13 How did it all go?

14 Reactions: Download Stats
Over ‘clicks’ on ICE page Over 6000 separate downloads over the 13 weeks 76 s sent voluntarily by students Overall downward trend, but still worth it, I think…

15 Reactions: Download Stats

16 Reactions: Student magazine

17 Reactions: Emails received
From: ******** ********** Sent: Tuesday, February 14, :48 PM To: Samuel James Crofts Subject: Podcast!! Dear Sam, The PODCAST is great, and my roommates have asked me for the network address. Maybe next week you can talk about your fiancee~ Yours sincerely, From: ******** ********** Sent: Wednesday, February 15, :09 PM To: Podcast Subject: Dear Podcasters I think the podcast is very interesting and I suggest the topic "how to make boy/girlfriend in different countries" for next week. I really want to join in! PS: Could you speak Japanese? Best wishes! From: ******** ********** Sent: Saturday, March 17, :05 PM To: podcast Subject: hi sam,aneta,sarah, I'm hazel. I want to know the studying environment in liverpool university and I'm quite worried about the scoucer accent. if the accent will puzzle me? meanwhile, I really really want to know how to improve the spoken english. sarah,you are a chinese girl right but your english sounds pretty good, how can you do that? it's amazing. From: ******** ********** Sent: Wednesday, February 15, :22 PM To: Samuel James Crofts Subject: Hi this evening i listened to your podcast on ice, i thought it's really funny. I think sometimes the listening from ice are difficult to understand ,but through your short conversation, i learned more. I hope next time you can bring us some funny stories or some common knowledge in your countries. I want to learn more diffirent culture anyway. By the way, how can i get involved? Is there any conditions i need?

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Conclusion Go forth and podcast (sorry for using a noun as a verb)


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