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


Aim: Getting students to reflect on keywords

Moodle modules: Web page and Glossary

Extra programs: None

Ease of setup: *

Another way of engaging students is to give them the opportunity to comment on words in the glossary. This is good for several reasons:

  • It helps them to process the word and so understand it and use it better

  • It can be fun and interesting

  • It can help teachers see if students have understood the word

In this activity we're going to focus students' attention on the vocabulary they will need for a reading text taken from the novel Around the World in 80 days by Jules Verne. You could use any text. By getting students to sort vocabulary and comment on it, we hope they will remember it better and appreciate the text that generated the vocabulary better.

There are various criteria we can give for selecting words to comment on. For example:

  • Words you like

  • Words you think are useful

  • Words you want to understand...