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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: Adding a sound extension to vocabulary lists


Aim: Help students practice the pronunciation of words in their vocabulary lists

Moodle modules: Database

Extra programs: NanoGong

Ease of setup: *

It's often useful to be able to add sound to a student activity. This activity provides an extension to Activity 10, Using a database to set up categorized vocabulary lists in Chapter 3, Vocabulary Activities. The addition will mean that students can read a word, see its definition, look at related words, and hear how it's pronounced.

This is a fairly simple operation, and is a matter of adding a recording to your existing definition. Your enhanced database would now look something like this:

Here's how to do it

  1. Click on the database you created in Chapter 3, Vocabulary Activities, Activity 10.

  2. Now click on the editing icon next to the first word, paper.
  3. Click on the cursor to the left of the first word, made.

  4. Now we click on the audio button in the editing menu and record the word paper,...