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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

Useful Moodle add-ons


Here are some of the add-ons that can enhance your assessment practice in Moodle. They can all be downloaded from the download modules page on the main Moodle site. See Chapter 2 for downloading add-on Modules.

Hot Potatoes

This popular quiz program is easy to set up and use. If you don't need Moodle's detailed results and feedback summaries, you might find it easier to use Hot Potatoes instead. There are instructions on how to download it in Chapter 2, Getting Started with Moodle, and there are some example activities that use it in Chapter 3, Vocabulary Activities and Chapter 6, Reading Activities.

Lolipop module

It looks like the British word for a Popsicle, but this isn't a way of bribing youngsters into doing tests. Lolipop stands for Language Online Portfolio Project. It uses the Common European Framework to help students evaluate their current and target language skills. Lolipop's main website is at http://lolipop-portfolio.eu/about.html.

It's a useful tool for getting...