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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 11: Creating a gap-fill using the Quiz module


Aim: Help students predict and practice vocabulary based on a given context.

Moodle modules: Quiz

Extra programs: Audacity needed for Variation 2

Ease of setup: ***

We're more than likely to want to test our students' memory and knowledge of vocabulary at some point. And testing is one of the things Moodle does best, which is why the whole of Chapter 9, Assessment is devoted to it. Moodle has a Quiz module with many different task types: short answers, multiple choice, true/false, matching, and several more. The Quiz module may seem a bit daunting at first, but if we work steadily through an example and see how quizzes are organized in Moodle, it shouldn't take too long to feel comfortable with it. Once you've learned how to use it, you can use it to test listening, writing, reading, speaking, and grammar, too.

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Hot Potatoes

If you want a simpler option, use Hot Potatoes. This is an easy-to-use external program which lets you make a variety...