Using soundcloud in teaching English

SoundCloud is a wonderful audio recording and sharing platform with huge potential for us in education. The distinctive set of features SoundCloud provides to its users have made it one of the most popular audio websites out there. As such, I deemed it important to create a guide that can help teachers and student tap into the educational potential of this tool. 

Why We Should To Use soundcloud in Learning English ?

• SoundCloud is very easy and simple to use
• It is free (at least the basic version which is all we need to use with students).
• SoundCloud enhances and adds another layer for students communication with teachers.
• Sometimes telling is more expressive than writing or visualizing and SoundCloud is ideal for that.
• SoundCloud gives a voice to students and enables them to say their minds.
• SoundCloud improves students engagement with the learning taking place in class through the interactive features it provides such as commenting and liking.
• Adding audio in your instruction diversifies your teaching methodology in such a way that it meets the needs of the different learning styles in class.
• SoundCloud is available both on the web and as a mobile app for iPad, iPhone, and Android.

Ways to use SoundCloud in Class

• Students can use it for language practice. Students record their speaking and teachers provide comments on their performances focusing on particular language areas like grammar,  word choice, language slips…etc
• Students can use it to enhance their speaking abilities by recording speeches addressed to their peers or to other classes.
• Students can record audio clips and add them as explanatory materials to the class projects they are working on.
• Teachers can use it to add audio feedback to students assignments.
• Teachers can create a SoundCloud group for their classes and encourage students to upload, record and share audio there. The group can be set to private so that only students can view and use it.
• Encourage students to leave comments on the sound tracks uploaded by other students in the SoundCloud group of the class.
• SoundCloud can be used for digital storytelling.
• Students can use it for book reports. They can record audio book reports outlining their thought. about the books they read and invite others to interact with the audio by leaving comments.
• Use SoundCloud to document and distribute lessons and lectures with students.
• Use it for podcasting in class.

To improve students speaking speaking's skill you can ask the students to make a podcast in a group , here the example of using podcast in learning english : https://soundcloud.com/user-27448849/group-3-podcast-culture-shock

And to create a sounclod you can go to this link : 

https://soundcloud.com/

If you're confused how to create and share your podcast in souncloud you can watch this video :

I hope this simple explanation can help you for your teaching inspiration and  all the english learner :)