Открытое образование (Москва) (Jul 2022)
Developing high school students’ listening skills in the context of multimodal English communication by means of a Moodle-based fixed set of interactive audio-visual activities
Abstract
The purpose of the study is to characterize a Moodle-based fixed system which acts as a technological implementation medium for the teaching method of developing listening skills in multimodal communication, at a high school level with the use of authentic videos. The relevance of the issue is underlined by the necessity of ensuring successful pupils’ interactions in the context of intercultural multimodal communication where verbal and non-verbal languages are used interdependently to produce meaning. From the point of view of methods of teaching it means a high school student must possess skills allowing to perceive (both aurally and visually) and understand social actions in English which are marked by the communicative indirectness resulted from the interdependency of verbal and non-verbal signals in producing multimodal meaning.Materials and methods. Theoretical justification of the development of the Moodle-based fixed system of activities is established by theoretical analysis of the theories and conceptual ideas in the fields of social semiotics (M.A.K. Halliday, T. Leeuwen, М. Gavrilova), multimodal communication (C. Jeweitt, J. Bezeme, K. O'Halloran), pedagogy and pedagogical technology (V. Bespalko), linguodidactics and methods of teaching (N. Galskova, N. Gez, A. Schepilova, S. Daminova, E. Chikunova), psychology (R. Nemov), sociolinguistics (M.K. Noordewier, S.M. Breugelmans, M. Abulaish, K. Ashraf, N. Koroshinadze, J. Jorgensen, Ch. Taylor), and hermeneutics (G. Bogin).The methods used are the analysis of scientific works on the issue, modeling, method of exercises, method of programmed learning, micro-learning method, HTML5 via H5P plugin for LMS Moodle, VideoEditor (Windows 10).Results. The authors specified the term “audio-video reception” and described the results of the selection process of the educational content for teaching listening in the context of multimodal communication in English. The matrix of Moodle-based fixed system of activities was scaffolded, the set of interactive audio-visual exercises was designed. Finally, the development process of an interactive audio-visual activity was described, which required the use of basic and additional Moodle plugins.Conclusion. The described matrix of Moodle-based fixed system of activities acts as a technological core of a method of teaching listening in the context of multimodal communication in English and is aimed at ensuring a partial automatization of the developmental process of the specific receptive and interpretative skills that Russian high school students require to participate both actively and effectively in intercultural multimodal communication in English.
