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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

Chapter 5. Grammar Activities

Most teachers like to teach grammar, but do all students like to learn it? Sometimes it may seem boring. Sometimes it seems too difficult. Using Moodle, we can try to spice up grammar a bit, by introducing images, sound, video, and a game element. We can incorporate helpful feedback, which individual students can process in their own time so that they begin to understand grammar points better. Also, students have the advantage of being able to repeat exercises to their hearts' content.

This chapter is organized in grammar sections that might be taught in a communicative language teaching classroom.

Section

Section contents

1

Presentation and knowledge - Activity 1

Moodle is ideal for explaining and illustrating grammar with audio, video, image, and text support.

2

Noticing activity - Activity 2

This activity helps students identify aspects of grammar within a spoken or written text. Authentic texts can be used here, as they are invariably more interesting...