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The Disadvantages of Learning Listening via Moodle at Van Lang University

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2022
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Ngo Nhat Phuong Quynh
Tran Thanh Phuong
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In the technical era, which may pave the way for upgraded teaching as well as learning methods, especially in terms of e-learning. As a matter of fact, a majority of language teaching or learning all around the world is focused vigorously on e-learning. One of the most effective platforms is Moodle, common web-based learning at the institution. A vast range of supportive studies implement Moodle on general learning skills; nevertheless, students' listening skill is just only undertaken on small scale in Vietnam. This indicates an insatiable demand to comprehend the process of taking and practicing Moodle as a primary way to learn listening skill. Thereby, the goal of this research is to find out the limitations of utilizing Moodle in boosting the freshmen’s listening abilities at Van Lang University. For this research, the quantitative technique was employed to seek for the learners' perspectives in regard to the disadvantages that took place while undertaking Moodle in supplying support to the students' listening abilities. To gather data for the research, 50 freshmen at Van Lang university took part in the online questionnaire. The results revealed that a broad variety of learners exhibit their own ideas that utilizing Moodle platform still exists a large range of difficulties which they have to suffer from throughout the duration of learning Listening via Moodle. Another key opinion was that the applicants badly rated the usage of Moodle for limiting their autonomy in the learning process. Also, while there are various positives when employing Moodle in studying Listening, some participants mentioned that inadequate technological aid which might be a significant difficulty in improving listening abilities. Also, quite a few difficulties came up from the results that have critical consequences for adopting Moodle platform more successfully in language teaching and learning in the future.
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Moodle, disadvantages, listening skills, online-based learning management, e-learning
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