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
General Five Tips to Reduce Speaking Anxiety in the World Languages Classroom I’ve written before about how speaking anxiety is a common phenomenon in any setting where… Anxiety 2016-05-17
General Eight Ways to Differentiate your Speaking Activities There's been a lot of talk these days in educational circles about differentiating instruction. In… Assessment 2016-05-10
General Grading Oral Assignments in a Large Class (or Why we rely on written work to assess learning in large groups?) Why don’t we assess speaking as frequently as we assess writing, or written grammar, or… 2016-05-03
General Can-Do Statements to Develop Oral Proficiency There is much talk lately about NCSSFL-ACTFL’s Can-Do Statements and their role in measuring language… 2016-04-25
General Using Extempore for Project-Based Learning If you've been following our blog, you've probably noticed that we often emphasize Extempore's unique… AuthenticScaffolding 2016-04-18
General Building a Thematic Sequence of Speaking and Listening Practice on Extempore Recently, my Spanish 2 students and I were exploring a unit based around city life.… ScaffoldingFormative Assessment 2016-04-11