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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 the Quiz module to practice grammar


Aim: Help students to identify correct grammar

Moodle modules: Quiz

Extra programs: None

Ease of setup: ***

Some students enjoy learning grammar in a controlled environment where grammar is set out methodically and they receive useful feedback on their attempts to use it. The Quiz module is well suited to this. There is a range of question types which can be used to practice or test grammar, such as multiple choice, true/false, gap-fill. See Chapter 9, Assessment for a full discussion of question types.

Quiz is flexible. If we change the settings in quiz to allow multiple attempts, students can keep practicing and improving. We can also enhance their learning more by providing informative feedback. All students' marks appear in the Moodle gradebook, which allows both students and teachers to get a good overview of students' progress. There's more information on the gradebook in Chapter 9, Assessment. Another nice feature of Moodle is that...