The Impact of Educational Podcasts on Enhancing English Students’ Comprehensive Language Skills

الملخص

The objective of this study was to ascertain if instructional podcasts may enhance the overall language proficiency of Iraqi EFL students and to examine any significant disparities in their performance at the recognition and production levels. The study used a quasi-experimental method with a group of 60 high school girls from Tikrit, Iraq.    Cluster random sampling was used to choose the participants, and they were evenly split into an experimental group (n=30) and a control group (n=30). The experimental group was taught via instructional podcasts, whereas the control group was educated with more traditional ways of communicating. Both groups took a test after the study to assess how well they could utilize language in general