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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

Chapter 10. Extended Activities

Extended activities reinforce the key features of communicative language teaching outlined in Chapter 1, What does Moodle offer language teachers?. In particular, they:

  • Allow us to set up integrated skills work

  • Create more opportunities for iterative work, which, with appropriate feedback from teachers, can further develop language skills

  • Create more opportunities for peer-to-peer interaction

  • Allow us to incorporate a variety of feedback types

  • Can lead to a greater sense of achievement in students

Many of the activities in earlier chapters illustrate integrated activities in that they combine two or more skills. Here are just a few examples:

Chapter

Activity

Skills

3

Activity 3: Using comments in Glossary module for students to comment on their keywords

Reading and writing

4

Activity 4: Learning by repeating poems

Listening and speaking

5

Activity 2: Using the Lesson module to get students to notice grammar points

Listening and analyzing grammar

6

Activity...