MOODLE IN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND TESTING. THE EMBEDDED ANSWERS QUESTION TYPE

The Moodle platform has been used a lot lately in higher education not only for distance learning but also in hybrid classes and as an accessory to the regular form of instruction. This article discusses the usefulness of Moodle in producing tests for language teaching and learning. Allowing several self-evaluation tests and scheduled practice, learning through discovery and through practice is ensured if more attempts are set available. Final testing can also be safely implemented, but this empirical study shall particularly focus on how Moodle can be made into an invaluable tool, useful for innumerable types of language learning areas, from vocabulary to grammar aspects, through the provision of time-saving and appealing quizzes, beneficial both to language teachers and to students. The various tests or quizzes, after being created and implemented, set available within the application, shall then forth render instant, accurate, useful feedback to the students accessing and solving them, as well as to the teacher. Thus, Moodle quizzes are at the same time valid practicing instruments in classes or individual sessions, and means of regular assessments as well, being equally valuable in progress checking and self-checking. The exemplification in this article refers to one of the quiz question types that is most offering and at the same time most elaborate, both in producing it and in its outcome, namely the embedded answer question type. The expertise of the author in creating and using such an exercise type may be of help to other teachers who have the opportunity to use Moodle in their work and could make good use of the examples provided here.