ReadAloud can also be used as means of benchmarking reading speed and to practice listening. ReadAloud saves teachers time and energy as students engage with ReadAloud in an individualized fashion, and feedback is provided to learners and the instructors. Educators can also use this data to benchmark their students’ oral reading abilities. In this activity, students read a passage, and then ReadAloud’s AI evaluates the audio file, data is provided to the teacher and the teacher can use this data to assist the student with their reading skill. This is a valuable tool for instructors meeting the needs of learners who are trying to master discrete aspects of language through practice and repetition, while they are challenged to teach a social subject, with no or limited face-to-face time with their students. ReadAloud provides students with artificial intelligence assessed listening, pronunciation and reading practice. Teachers can also review the results of each session to identify areas of concern or learner strengths. As the instructor makes the quiz, questions can be recycled a question bank. Teachers can create questions that include text, audio, video, hyperlinks, and images to enrich the context and skills required for success. Opportunities to interact with the teacher, each other, and the material in a fun and engaging ways include materials reviews, low-stakes formative assessments, discussion starters, or even real time polls. Since these quizzes are synchronous, students must be logged in at a defined time to participate. The challenge of a countdown timer and competing with their peers demands focus on course content. This activity allows students to participate in timed online quizzes with their classmates, no matter their location. RealTime quiz, allows a gamified synchronous quiz activity that is similar to Quizlet Live or Kahoot in a Moodle course. They can also be used in synchronous online classes with the instructor leading or allowing learners to take control. These plug-ins can be used as pre or post work. Similar to most online activities, these plug-ins allow the learners autonomy to accelerate their learning or possibly take different pathways. These plug-ins provide diverse opportunities to simulate these types of activities with and without their peers online. Language learning is an individual challenge that does involve a great deal of social activity. Learners are also motivated by the gamification characteristics of these plug-ins.
They provide learners the opportunity for repetition with automated and, when the teacher has the time to review, personal feedback.
While each of these plug-ins allow learners to practice and hopefully master structures and nuances in their target language, all of these plug-ins provide functions that are essential during this unusual and uncertain time when fully online and blended learning modes dominate the educational landscape. This post highlights a few Moodle plug-ins that we use to assist language teachers to enhance their Moodle courses. I have been working on this project for a little over a decade and as time has marched on, our experience has allowed us to try various plug-ins to enhance the learning experience for newcomers to Canada. The Avenue project in provides a community of learning and sharing for language educators using the Moodle learning management system, LMS.
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