Podcasts and Practice: An Approach for Teaching Vocabulary

Abstract

This article explains an approach to support students’ mastery of vocabulary utilizing brief, instructor-created instructional podcasts and low-stakes formative assessment. Students learned the vocabulary outside of class time by listening to podcasts and had repeated opportunities to take and retake quizzes to work towards mastery of the essential vocabulary for the course. The students described in this article were undergraduate students taking a foundations of education course, but the practice is flexible and could be adapted for use in many different content areas and grade levels.