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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 6: Reviewing recordings using Questionnaire


Aim: Get students to think about recordings through an evaluation questionnaire

Moodle modules: Questionnaire add-on

Extra programs: None

Ease of setup: ***

Questionnaires can be used to get students to evaluate recordings in the same way as written texts. Consider the list of sources in Activity 1 as a starting point. You could also use questionnaires to find out what sorts of recordings or movies your class would like to watch. Imagine we've selected the news from bbc.co.uk for a given date. We can place the URL for the news item in the question text.

Here's how to do it

Follow the instructions in Chapter 6, Reading Activities, Activity 5.

Here's what the set-up page for the first question text could look like:

As before, we can choose from a wide range of questions. Each time we can make a recording available either by inserting a Moodle audio player, a NanoGong recording, or a URL to a recording on a website.

Here's what the finished above...