Now Hear This: Enhanced Audio Technology Can Improve ESL Learning

In most cases, when getting people’s stories, I can operate from a comfort zone because I was a librarian for decades and did some teaching at colleges and universities. Recently, however, I found out about an elementary school teacher in California who did a study on how improved audio equipment could impact the effectiveness in teaching the English language to immigrant children in the U.S. I wasn’t familiar with this idea at all, so I was eager to learn more about the situation this teacher was in.

​In most cases, when getting people’s stories, I can operate from a comfort zone because I was a librarian for decades and did some teaching at colleges and universities. Recently, however, I found out about an elementary school teacher in California who did a study on how improved audio equipment could impact the effectiveness in teaching the English language to immigrant children in the U.S. I wasn’t familiar with this idea at all, so I was eager to learn more about the situation this teacher was in. Read More