New Technology and Language for Specific Purposes: The Benefits of Moodle Platform

Abstract

Using Moodle platform in teaching language for specific purposes is an innovation in the Albanian context, as teachers are mainly introduced and trained how to use this platform. This platform is very useful when speaking about using it in such an inconsolidated field as language for specific purposes is in Albania. Its implementation and an efficient use seeks specialised help and group work which we have already started in the framework of a two year inter-regional project of the UAF, with a Moldavian university and two French Universities. In this paper, we aim at describing and analysing the advantages that Moodle Platform brings in teaching French for specific purposes and especially in French for economics and law, based on our experience with the above-mentioned project. We will firstly point out the features of the platform, why we have chosen half presentielteaching method and the implied amount of work for the professor and the learner. Furthermore, we are going to bring a module example that we will use for the both above-mentioned fields. At the end, we are going to make some suggestions of how to integrate new technology in consolidating the main three fields we have at present in the Faculty of Foreign Languages: methodology, translation and communication.

DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2013.v3n7p528