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
General Deeloh Technologies and SkillFitness Announce Partnership Minneapolis, MN (April 6, 2016) Deeloh Technologies and SkillFitness today announced the formation of a… 2016-04-07
General Extempore Boosts Speaking Confidence MALL (Mobile-Assisted Language Learning) is effective A recent review of studies testing the effectiveness of… 2016-04-04
General Extempore: Helping the Over-scheduled Teacher Perhaps you read our related post about Extempore being a great example of teaching technology… GradingAnxiety 2016-03-28
General Extempore: Helping the Over-scheduled Student We at Extempore have taught at several different institutions: middle schools, high schools, private colleges,… 2016-03-22
General Using Extempore as a Window into Culture Hopefully, if you've explored our site or if you've read our previous blog posts, you… AuthenticCulture 2016-03-14
General Five Topics Students Like to Talk about in the Foreign Language Classroom If there’s something we all like to talk about, it’s ourselves. Topics related to one’s… 2016-03-07