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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

Assessing language — working through an example


It's often easier to learn by doing. It's a good idea to work through one of the several examples using Quiz in this book before you go on with the rest of the chapter. Here are some possibilities:

Chapter

Activity

Description

3

11

Gap-fill question which tests vocabulary in context

4

2

Matching question which gets students to identify word stress

4

9

Speaking assignment with feedback on performance from teacher

5

5

  • Multiple-choice question to practice grammar

  • Gap-fill question to practice grammar

  • True/False question to practice grammar

There are also several practice activities, like Chapter 5, Grammar Activities, Activity 2, which use the Lesson module and which could easily be converted into tests by selecting No in the Practice lesson option on the set-up page, which you can see in the screenshot that follows. You should also check the Flow control settings to make sure they are appropriate.

Once you've been through an example...