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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: Using a chat session transcript to analyze grammar errors


Aim: Help students analyze language errors generated by an online chat

Moodle modules: Chat plus optional use of Wiki and Forum

Extra programs: Optional use of word processor or Audacity

Ease of setup: *

This activity is similar to Chapter 3, Vocabulary Activities, Activity 7. The key difference is that we are reviewing grammar errors rather than vocabulary errors. For the final analysis you might find it useful to add a middle column which uses symbols to indicate what the grammar mistake relates to. For example:

T

tense

WO

word order

Prep

preposition

Sp

spelling

Punc

punctuation

This is what Step 1b of Chapter 3, Vocabulary Activities, Activity 7 might look like when we're analyzing it for grammar errors.

Online chat — correcting your errors

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Cover the corrections in the left hand column

  2. Look at the words in bold in the dialog

  3. Try to correct them

  4. Then compare your answer to the corrected version

  

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