Extempore How-To's, Featured 4, 3, 2, 1: A Practical Guide to Using Extempore’s Timers WHAT, there are TIMED questions too???? Mr. Castner, I can’t even… I couldn’t tell you… AssessmentProficiency+ 3 2022-12-01
General, Guest Post Lowering the Affective Filter with Communicative Tasks This post is written by one of our Extempore teacher Ambassadors, Kathryn (Kalee) Rump, who teaches… StrategiesTasks+ 2 2021-12-21
Research Students speak more when using Extempore Students speak more when using Extempore A little over a year ago, I blogged about… AssessmentAnxiety 2017-06-28
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 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 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 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 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 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 How to Get your Shy Students to Talk? Change the Context. Any teacher would love to have just the right activity or the perfect strategy to… Anxiety 2015-12-14