Results & comments

Positive comments

Many positive commentaries were made in favor of this project. Students' reasons could be divided into three groups:

1.- Novelty and amusement:

• "It is something new"
• "I would like to do it again because you learn a lot"
• "I loved it because it was very funny and interesting"
• "I had fun and I learnt more English"
• "I liked the process that we have followed until we recorded the audio"
• "The best thing was when I was listening to my friends' podcasts. I love this project!"

2.- Rise of students' awareness about the language.

• "I would like to repeat the project. I have paid more attention to my pronunciation and it is a funnier way of doing a class"
• "I like recording the audio because my pronunciation was better"
• "You learn a lot of pronunciation"
• "I like it because you listen to your own mistakes"
• "You learn vocabulary"

3.- Provide students with more opportunities to speak and improve.

• "It is an opportunity to practice speaking"

Negative comments

On the contrary, there were also some negative commentaries against this project. The main reason given by those against this project was that it had meant a lot of work for them. A few negative points such as the amount of work or some technological problems were mentioned:

• "The number of times that I should repeat"

• " I don't like when I was recording the audio and someone entered into my room"

• "I don't like how my voice sounds"

• "When I was speaking I started a lot of times"

• "I have had a little problem with new technologies"

• "The worst thing was when we were recording the story because I think I have a very bad pronunciation, but this project helped me with this"