Using LMS Moodle in Teaching CLIL: A Case Study

Abstract

The paper describes Learning Management System (Moodle) usage in teaching CLIL course to pre-service teachers of Kazan Federal University. The research aim is to explore students’ perceptions of learning in a virtual environment while content and language integrated learning (CLIL) with English being a medium of instruction. The results of the survey conducted among 56 students suggest that they found Moodle easy to navigate, useful, and accessible; it supports peer/ and student-tutor interaction and is effective in complementing face-to-face teaching. However, additional results of the survey show that students mostly use Moodle as a repository of materials and a structured set of audiovisual resources relevant to the subject taught in a foreign language. The proposition of implementing more Moodle tools in CLIL will be the aim of further research.