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Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching

You're reading from   Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching Engaging online language learning activities using the Moodle platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2009
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847196248
Length 524 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. What Does Moodle Offer Language Teachers? FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Moodle 3. Vocabulary Activities 4. Speaking Activities 5. Grammar Activities 6. Reading Activities 7. Writing Activities 8. Listening Activities 9. Assessment 10. Extended Activities Index

Here's how to do it


Preparation

First we need to make a recording for our students to listen to.

Here's an example. Imagine that your students have been having problems with the pronunciation of words that come from French and you want to provide them with a few guidelines and examples. This is the sort of instruction you might include:

There are lots of French words used in English every day. Some of them are so common we don't even realize they're French. Occasionally, we need to make them sound a bit more French. Here are some words that came up last week. One word was 'debut'. Don't forget:

You shouldn't pronounce the 't' at the end. Try saying it: 'debut'… 'debut'. Another word that came up was 'chauffeur'. That's not a 'ch' sound as in 'church' but a 'sh' sound as in 'shower'. Try saying it: 'chauffeur'. Notice that the stress is on the second syllable 'eur' 'chauffeur'. Etc.

  1. Make a recording of this instruction using your preferred recording program. If you don't have one already, I'd...

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