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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 2: Using Web pages to read and listen


Aim: Help students follow text by allowing them to read and listen simultaneously

Moodle modules: Moodle Web page or Book

Extra programs: NanoGong or Audacity

Ease of setup: *

How can we help students when they find it difficult to understand what they hear? One simple solution is to let them read a transcript while they listen to the text. This is straightforward to set up. We can use a Moodle Web page for a one-page text, or we can use another module called Book if you want to divide up a text into several parts. The Book module is a helpful way of organizing web pages. It's like an independent website. Here's what a Book module with a selection of stories might look like. The Table of Contents is on the left and the text is on the right.

If the text is short, you can record it on NanoGong (the add-on recording facility), as in the screenshot above. That's the easy option. See the introduction to Chapter 4, Speaking Activities if you need help...