ESL podcasts vs traditional listening statistics — part 1

Posted on July 26, 2007
Filed Under English skills

I’ve calculated these pretty simple figures based on ESL links collections at the UsingEnglish.com web site. Some of you may disagree or think that this is trivial, but for me it looks impressive. BTW, I do also think that the term “podcast” may be indeed a bit repelling for non-techies and those who prefer visual or reading channels.

Standard listening links in the directory of UsingEnglish.com, excluding web sites of radio stations (year - number of links added to the directory):
2002 - 4
2003 - 1
2004 - 13
2005 - 5
2006 - 2

Std. listening links, only radio (those excluded from the breakdown above):
2003 - 3
2006 - 3

Podcast links (these are links in a separate section titled Podcasts):
2005 - 5
2006 - 12
2007 - 5

Here is a link to the discussion at UE for those of you who’s curious.

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