I enjoy listening to books and podcasts daily -- when I'm walking, on the elliptical, cooking, or sometimes just relaxing or getting ready to sleep. We all know the need for oral language development of English learners -- it seems there is a valuable place for audio, especially as an accompaniment to reading. There is lots of evidence for its effectiveness, in developing reading though not so much specifically about language learners. Below: some of the evidence; ideas for using audiobooks; sites for free audio for the classroom.
Research on benefits of audiobooks:
http://www.audiopub.org/Annotated%20Bibliography%20of%20Literature%20on%20Benefits%20of%20Audiobooks%20for%20Young%20People%20-%20Final.pdf
benefits of audiobooks:
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/benefits-audiobooks-all-readers
Ideas for using audiobooks with at-risk readers:
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED505947.pdf
A site with 650 free audiobooks -- many of them classics:
http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks
Fascinating free first-person brief stories for listening:
http://esl-bits.net/listening/ESL.English.Listening.htm
More free audiobooks, novellas, short stories, songs...
http://esl-bits.net/
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