AUDIOBOOKS, SHORT VIDEOS & DEVELOPING HEALTHY ACADEMIC WRITING HABITS
Audiobooks can be a wonderful tool for ESL (English as a Second Language) writers including academicians. Listening to books develops all four essential skills in learning a second language: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. These books can serve as sources of “comprehensible input,” - Language acquisition does not require extensive use of conscious grammatical rules, and does not require a tedious drill. The acquisition requires meaningful interaction in the target language - natural communication - in which speakers are concerned not with the form of their utterances but with the messages they are conveying and understanding.... 'Comprehensible input' is crucial and necessary ingredient for the acquisition of language as linguist Stephen Krashen puts it. He maintains that the acquisition of a language requires plenty of meaningful interaction in the target language. The best methods are therefore those that supply 'comprehensible input' in low anxiety ...