Facilitating Listening and Speaking skills for English majors at tertiary education through the use of moodle

Abstract

Based on the theory of flipped learning, this paper studies the benefits and difficulties English majors at a university obtain after using the online Listening - Speaking course on Moodle in the context that this theme receives little investigation in Vietnamese tertiary education. By employing questionnaires and semi-structured interviews, the study collects data after experimenting the online Moodle course in a period of four weeks. The findings reveal the advatanges of the Moodle course including saving in-class teaching and learning time, creating an English learning environment, or having useful contents. However, obstacles such as technical problems, huge workload or unsuitable exercises deter a number of students from wishing to use the learning management system in future courses.