Hsua, H.Y., Wanga, S.K., & Comac, L. (2008), 'Using Audio blogs to assist English-Language Learning: an Investigation into Student Perception.' Journal of Computer assisted Language Learning vol. 21, no. 2, 181–198

The goal of the study was to improve students’ English speaking and listening abilities, it involved the use of audio blogs as the means of communicating and interaction between the tutor and the students.

The study is relevant to institutions that practice long distance learning using mobile devices especially in the field of languages where the pronunciations of words and phrases are important to the mastering and development of good communicational skills.

In the study audio blogs were used to assist in the teaching of English language, the individual learners had individual audio blogs, they would record oral assignments using their phones and upload to an oral achieve where the instructor would retrieve the audio recording, the instructor interacted with each learner through the individual audio blogs to enhance their learning according to individual needs.

By using different methodology to explore how instructor’s interaction with learners through audio blogs improves the learner’s oral English performance, the results indicated that the use of audio blogs met the instructors instructional needs and provided an effective and efficient way to evaluate learners oral performance and permitting individualized oral feedback and the individual learners positive perception in the use of audio blogs to assist in their language learning experience. The study also discussed the challenges that users of audio blogs face in the English learning and its implications in language learning. 

The use of blogs had various advantages such as ease of use, affordance in comparison with podcasting methods approach which requires a media player as a delivery device, a server to host audio files, and particular software to create RSS feeds. Audio blogs are easy archiving of assignments for evaluation and are compatible with various multimedia format files, and it is easy to facilitate interaction between the learner and tutor.

The study was divided into four steps which include; firstly, the setup of the blog by the learners and the tutor, secondly, the online audio recording system, thirdly the procedure for the distribution and the completion of assignments and finally assessment of audio blogs assignment.