Use of LMS Moodle in training foreign language at institutions of higher education (experience of Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University)

• Main Author: Natalia Viktorovna Khudolei
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2018-12-01
• Series: RUDN Journal of Informatization in Education
• Subjects: LMS Moodle; e-education; placement of resources and activity modules in the Moodle courses; foreign language training; Moodle course in “Foreign Language”
• Online Access: http://journals.rudn.ru/informatization-education/article/viewFile/20590/16659

The author describes the advantages of working with the LMS Moodle system when teaching a foreign language at institutions of higher education, relying on her own experience in creating and introducing in the educational process of Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University electronic courses in the discipline “Foreign Language”. Broad information and communication technologies as well as pedagogical capabilities of the Moodle system are considered as a whole, and a certain methodology for working with the most promising tools of LMS Moodle system to create an electronic course “Foreign Language” is suggested and justified. The author demonstrates how a foreign language teacher can place teaching and controlling materials in an effective interactive form, introduce an unlimited number of additional materials, improve the quality of trainees’ self-control when dealing with educational material, and provide an objective control over the assimilation of educational material by students. The author comes to the conclusion about the expediency of using Moodle e-courses “Foreign Language” in the educational process of the university, along with the traditional form of teaching a foreign language.