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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 4: Using OUwiki to help students learn by repeating


Aim: Help students practice speaking by listening and repeating

Moodle modules: OUwiki

Extra programs: NanoGong

Ease of setup: **

There is much value in helping students listen repeatedly to the targeted language. It helps them get used to the sounds and the meaning. This activity goes one step further as it allows students to listen to a model text and then to record their own version of the same text. The easiest way to organize this on Moodle is by using NanoGong to record and OUwiki to write the scripts and embed the sounds. Don't forget that NanoGong doesn't work in the normal Moodle Wiki.

In this example we're going to record a poem line by line. Poems often work well, because there is a strong rhythm, and they can be interesting and enjoyable as well as useful.

What it will look like

Each mini-recording will go in a table on a wiki. Students click on the audio button to hear the model. Then they record their own version next to...