General Let's Go to the Mall Today: Paired Dialogue Task Ideas A few weeks ago, we posted about student-centered paired activities meant to develop speaking skills… AssessmentAuthentic 2016-08-18
General 6 Tips for Improving Pronunciation with Extempore Imperfect or non-native-like pronunciation can often be a huge roadblock towards effective communication in a… AssessmentAnxiety+ 2 2016-08-11
General 20 Fun How-To Tasks to Get Your Students Talking Although students and teachers occupy the same space throughout much of the day, it won't… AssessmentFormative Assessment 2016-08-04
General Paired role plays with Extempore: Student-centered in-class practice If you read our blog, you've probably noticed that we talk a lot here about… AuthenticScaffolding 2016-07-28
General Ditch the Language Lab: Go Anywhere (and Everywhere) with Extempore We live in a mobile world. We take our devices everywhere we go and do… AssessmentAuthentic 2016-07-22
General Assigning Speaking Practice over the Summer with Extempore If there's anything that teachers and students can agree on, it's that summer vacation is...what's… AssessmentFormative Assessment 2016-07-14
General 6 Image-based Extempore Tasks to Get Your Students Talking We've all heard the cliché: a picture is worth a thousand words. But with Extempore,… AssessmentCulture 2016-07-05
General Three Activities to Use Extempore as a Conversation Builder The last week of classes one of my students said that he was going to… 2016-06-21
General Breaking Down the Affective Filter and Building Confidence with Extempore I see it every year (and sometimes, sadly, every day). The stammering,… Anxiety 2016-06-14
General Study Abroad Spoken Journals on Extempore Awhile back, I was rummaging through some personal belongings, and I stumbled across my old… AnxietyCulture 2016-06-08
General Using the Subjunctive to "Solve" Environmental Problems Several of our blog posts have been bigger picture recommendations for how Extempore can help… 2016-05-31
General Feedback for Oral Assessments in the World Languages Classroom Why are you giving feedback on EVERYTHING? Many of us, especially new teachers, tend to… 2016-05-24