General Growing oral proficiency: Five ways to help students move from intermediate to advanced level Making the Jump: Intermediate to Advanced Proficiency If you teach advanced courses, you experience… Advanced Proficiency 2017-04-02
General Building conversation skills through listening Yes, being a good listener is part of being a good conversational partner, even in… 2017-03-26
General The role of vocabulary in building fluency: Making students aware Do you remember those days when you were a beginning language learner and you became… Self-AssessmentFormative Assessment+ 1 2017-03-12
General What's For Dinner?: Paired Dialogue Task Ideas A few months ago, we posted about the benefits of student-centered paired speaking activities on… AuthenticCulture 2017-03-05
General The Challenges of Assessing Cultural Competency in the World Languages We all know the importance of the 4 big skills in a world language class:… AssessmentAuthentic+ 2 2017-01-16
General Extempore, Backward Design, and Exit Outcomes for Students Most educators have come across the concept of backward design in the past few years.… Assessment 2017-01-07
General The Problems with World Language Presentations and How to Fix Them-Part 2 Hopefully you read our post last time about the problems that many students encounter with… AssessmentAuthentic+ 1 2016-12-05
General The Problems with World Language Presentations and How to Fix Them--Part 1 You've probably had to walk the plank before. Uh oh. Presentation time. You know, where… Anxiety 2016-11-28
General Dear Diary: the Preterite and the Imperfect on Extempore If you teach Spanish (or French, for that matter), you know how mighty the battle… Assessment 2016-11-14
General Spice up the Classroom with a Cooking Competition on Extempore! These days you can't turn on the TV without seeing a cooking show. Some of… AssessmentAuthentic+ 3 2016-10-17
General The Best of the Best: A Speaking Activity on Extempore When I was growing up, my hometown newspaper ran an informal column in which the… 2016-09-20
General Speaking Self-Reflection: It's Not Just For Writing Anymore If you're a teacher, you probably already know that one of the big pushes in… AssessmentSelf-Assessment+ 1 2016-09-08