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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 9: Presenting a monolog using the Quiz module


Aim: Help students produce monologs for assessment

Moodle modules: Quiz

Extra programs: NanoGong (optional)

Ease of setup: ***

In Activity 8 we helped students create blogs for public viewing. Sometimes it is more appropriate to make the presentation private. The Quiz module helps us do that. Here are the main reasons for using a Quiz module, rather than a Blog or Forum, as a showcase for students' recordings:

  • Quizzes are private.

  • It's easy for teachers to record individual feedback.

  • Teachers can grade student attempts: the grades are automatically incorporated into the Moodle gradebook.

  • Students may be more motivated to produce the recording if they know that their peers won't hear it. Though for some students the chance to show off is the key motivator.

The easiest type of recording is a monolog, but it may well be feasible for students to get together and record a dialog. In fact, that could be a fun, useful process in itself. The list of...