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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

Who is assessing whom?


Many of Moodle's modules are organized so that the teacher gives feedback on students' performance, but other assessment relationships are also possible. Each can contribute in positive ways to language learning. Here are examples of how Moodle features or modules can be used to change the assessment relationship to other than the default — teacher assessing students. The rating and comments features are controlled on the module set-up pages.

Students assess students

Feature

Details

Examples in this book

Rating feature

Students can grade each other's work on a simple rating scale.

Comments feature

In the Glossary, Database, OUblog, E-Portfolio, Workshop, and Forum modules, students can comment on each other's contributions. Students can comment on and grade draft and/or final versions of each other's work according to predetermined assessment criteria.