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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 Reader to create an extended reading program


Aim: Set up a reading program with end-of-book quizzes using the Reader module

Moodle modules: Quiz

Extra programs: Reader

Ease of setup: ***

Sometimes students need or want to read a whole string of books — or we want them to! Thomas Robb has come up with a great way of organizing this sort of extended reading in an add-on module called Reader. It allows teachers to set up reading programs for long-term, extended reading, and helps organize key aspects of the program.

The module includes a database with the following sorts of information:

  • Book name — this must be the same as the quiz name

  • Publisher

  • Reading level

  • Length of book

  • Image of book cover

It allows teachers to associate quiz with each book. Students read a book, do the associated quizzes, then, optionally, receive a token as a reward. The token is designed to be the book cover, but you can use any image. The teacher decides how many questions students need to answer at the end...