Principles of Organization of Mixed Course in German as a Foreign Language on Moodle Platform

Abstract

The author’s development is presented: a mixed course in German as a foreign language of C1 level in accordance with the common European competences in foreign languages on the Moodle platform at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany). The relevance of the development is determined by the need to intensify the teaching of a foreign language through the introduction of modern information and communication technologies in the learning process. Features of mixed course in comparison to traditional face-to-face course are described. The methodological approaches underlying the course and competences formed in the online phase are presented. Special attention is paid to the development of communicative competence as a global goal of the course. The structure of educational and methodical complex “Aspekte neu C1” of publishing house “Klett-Langenscheidt” from the point of view of possibility of the mixed course organization on its material is considered. The Moodle tools (forum, poll, wiki, glossary) and the possibilities of their application for the organization of individual, pair, group work in static and variable pairs and groups, discussions in the plenum are analyzed. Examples of tasks are given. Attention is paid to the tools of intermediate and final control: tests, wiki, written tasks. The methods of feedback of students with the teacher leading the online phase are described.

Keywords

• mixed course
• german as a foreign language
• moodle platform tools
• intermediate and final control