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Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching

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Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching

Overview of this book

That word Moodle keeps cropping up all over the place ñ it's in the newspapers, on other teachers' tongues, in more and more articles. Do you want to find out more about it yourself and learn how to create all sorts of fun and useful online language activities with it? Your search ends right here. This book demystifies Moodle and provides you with answers to your queries. It helps you create engaging online language learning activities using the Moodle platform. It has suggestions and fully working examples for adapting classroom activities to the Virtual Learning Environment. This book breaks down the core components of a typical language syllabus ñ speaking, pronunciation, listening, reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, and assessment ñ and shows you how to use Moodle 1.9 to create complete, usable activities that practise them. Each chapter starts with activities that are easier to set up and progresses to more complex ones. Nevertheless, it's a recipe book so each activity is independent. We start off with a brief introduction to Moodle so that you're ready to deal with those specific syllabus topics, and conclude with building extended activities that combine all syllabus elements, making your course attractive and effective. Building activities based on the models in this book, you will develop the confidence to set up your own Moodle site with impressive results.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Activity 12: Creating a text/text matching activity using the Quiz module


Aim: Help students create associations between words and other words/images/audio

Moodle modules: Quiz

Extra programs: Audacity needed for Variation 2

Ease of setup: ***

It's well known that making associations between words and other objects, thoughts or sounds, is a good way to learn them. These other things can be images, sounds, other words, movements, emotions. Buzan's website http://www.buzanworld.com/ is a good source of information on this.

There is Quiz question type in Moodle that lets us set up a matching question, which helps students make associations. The way this works is that pairs of items are arranged in two separate columns. The student matches them by choosing an item from a drop-down menu in the right-hand column.

Lots of teachers get put off setting up Quiz module questions, because they are a little more complex than most of the other activities in Moodle. The pay-off is that once we've got them working...