ESL Podcasts

ESL Teacher Talks

This podcast is a very useful podcast for ESL teachers.  They share different resources, lesson/classroom ideas as well as talk about things that are going on in the ESL world.  Guest hosts help to keep things fresh on this podcast.

ESL Pod

Although this podcast is still being developed there are already almost 1000 podcast episodes available in the library.  This podcast will help to provide a guide for each lesson.  The podcast is very easy to follow.  The pace is slower which is very helpful for L2 students.

Culips ESL Podcast

I liked this podcast because it gives you different categories of lessons to choose from. I think his variety will help to meet the needs of the L2 students no matter where they are in their learning of English.  The lessons available are varied as to help meet their needs be they vocabulary, grammar, or more.

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