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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 1: Raising awareness of text structure using Quiz


Aim: Raise students' awareness of how certain texts are ordered

Moodle modules: Quiz with add-on Ordering question

Extra programs: None

Ease of setup: ***

One element of writing that's sometimes tricky for learners in any language is getting the parts of their text in the right order. That could be because they're not used to the type of text (genre) that they're writing, or because the order in the language they're learning is different to that in their own language. For example, in German you would write Liebe Grüße, which means "greetings" at the end of a letter and not at the beginning as you would in English. German writers in English need to know that.

We can practice ordering parts of texts with a variety of genres: they could be simple ones such as postcards, invitations, reminders, or memos, or more complicated ones such as essays, reviews, or reports.

This activity starts by getting students to recognize the order of key elements...