Making Podcasts in the Collegiate French Writing Course

Authors

  • Heather Willis Allen University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Sarah Gamalinda University of Wisconsin-Madison

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/cj.40912

Keywords:

presentational communication, making, design, digital narratives

Abstract

This study argues for grounding the teaching of presentational communication in a foreign language (FL) in Making- and Design-related concepts. We use the example of creating personal narrative podcasts in an advanced collegiate FL course to demonstrate how these concepts facilitate student learning outcomes in relation to genre awareness, digital literacy, and student engagement in presentational writing and speaking. A description is provided of the process of gaining understanding and carrying out thematic, generic, linguistic, and technical components of podcasting—a task that student self-reflections revealed as challenging yet ultimately rewarding.

Author Biographies

  • Heather Willis Allen, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Heather Willis Allen is Associate Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she also serves as a core faculty member in the PhD program in second language acquisition. Her research on language-learning motivation, language teacher cognition, and multiliteracies and design pedagogies has appeared in numerous applied linguistics journals, and she is the coauthor of A Multiliteracies Framework for Collegiate Foreign Language Teaching (2016) and Alliages Culturels: La Société Française en Transformation (2013).

  • Sarah Gamalinda, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Sarah Gamalinda is a PhD candidate and graduate research and teaching assistant in the department of French and Italian at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her doctoral research focuses on representations of race in contemporary French and francophone literature and cinema.

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Published

2021-02-02

Issue

Vol. 38 No. 1 (2021): Innovation and Creation: The Maker Movement

Section

Special Issue 38.1: Innovation and Creation: The Maker Movement

How to Cite

Allen, H. W., & Gamalinda, S. (2021). Making Podcasts in the Collegiate French Writing Course. CALICO Journal, 38(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1558/cj.40912

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