Fostering the development of future tourism and hospitality professionals' employability skills through the use of podcasting technology
As business environments keep changing and evolving so do professionals from various fields find themselves in the need of developing various employability skills. One such skill is communication in foreign languages and one way of developing language competence, in a timely manner, is to apply diff...
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Academy of Professional Studies South Serbia, Department of Business Studies Blace
2022-12-01
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| author | Ivana Jovanovic Nikolic Miljana Stojković Trajković |
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| description | As business environments keep changing and evolving so do professionals from various fields find themselves in the need of developing various employability skills. One such skill is communication in foreign languages and one way of developing language competence, in a timely manner, is to apply different technology in tertiary education language study. Podcasts are considered a complex yet simple way of developing students’ language competence and this study aims at investigating the level of podcast effectiveness in improving the English language vocabulary knowledge of students of tourism and hospitality. The results of quantitative research show that listening to podcasts improves students' vocabulary scores. Namely, the mean score for the post-test of the experimental group indicates a positive and significant difference in vocabulary knowledge of EFL students. This way, future tourism and hospitality professionals will have developed an important soft skill even before becoming active participants in the labor market. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4af9bcd02c034940b041403b8ab30c392023-04-14T21:47:29ZengAcademy of Professional Studies South Serbia, Department of Business Studies BlaceBizInfo2406-23242217-27692022-12-01132212810.5937/bizinfo2202021J306Fostering the development of future tourism and hospitality professionals' employability skills through the use of podcasting technologyIvana Jovanovic Nikolic0Miljana Stojković Trajković1Academy of Professional Studies South Serbia, Department Higher Business School Leskovac, Serbia Academy of Professional Studies South Serbia, Department Higher Business School Leskovac, Serbia As business environments keep changing and evolving so do professionals from various fields find themselves in the need of developing various employability skills. One such skill is communication in foreign languages and one way of developing language competence, in a timely manner, is to apply different technology in tertiary education language study. Podcasts are considered a complex yet simple way of developing students’ language competence and this study aims at investigating the level of podcast effectiveness in improving the English language vocabulary knowledge of students of tourism and hospitality. The results of quantitative research show that listening to podcasts improves students' vocabulary scores. Namely, the mean score for the post-test of the experimental group indicates a positive and significant difference in vocabulary knowledge of EFL students. This way, future tourism and hospitality professionals will have developed an important soft skill even before becoming active participants in the labor market.http://bizinfo.edu.rs/index.php/bizinfo/article/view/267podcastinglanguage learningvocabulary acquisitionemployability skillstourism and hospitality |
| spellingShingle | Ivana Jovanovic Nikolic Miljana Stojković Trajković Fostering the development of future tourism and hospitality professionals' employability skills through the use of podcasting technology BizInfo podcasting language learning vocabulary acquisition employability skills tourism and hospitality |
| title | Fostering the development of future tourism and hospitality professionals' employability skills through the use of podcasting technology |
| title_full | Fostering the development of future tourism and hospitality professionals' employability skills through the use of podcasting technology |
| title_fullStr | Fostering the development of future tourism and hospitality professionals' employability skills through the use of podcasting technology |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fostering the development of future tourism and hospitality professionals' employability skills through the use of podcasting technology |
| title_short | Fostering the development of future tourism and hospitality professionals' employability skills through the use of podcasting technology |
| title_sort | fostering the development of future tourism and hospitality professionals employability skills through the use of podcasting technology |
| topic | podcasting language learning vocabulary acquisition employability skills tourism and hospitality |
| url | http://bizinfo.edu.rs/index.php/bizinfo/article/view/267 |
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