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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 5: Using Questionnaire to explore texts


Aim: Get students to think about texts through a questionnaire

Moodle modules: Questionnaire add-on

Extra programs: None

Ease of setup: ***

Why would we want to use questionnaires to explore texts? They help us to get students to think about texts in some detail. Students can benefit from an overview of other students' opinions. Our questions can be as general or detailed as we want them to be. We could also get students to contribute questions beforehand, which may motivate them further. And finally, Moodle will calculate grades for the answers automatically.

Questionnaire is similar to Quiz in those respects with a few crucial differences:

  • In Questionnaire, students can view their own and each other's responses easily (a bit like an elaborate poll).

  • It allows students to print out or download the questionnaire easily.

  • The range of question types is bigger and includes grid questions (also known as Osgood variations), which don't appear in Quiz....