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, Extempore How-To's, Guest Post Communicative Activities to Enhance Speaking Skills This post is written by one of our Extempore teacher Ambassadors, Dorah Fauben, who teaches… AssessmentProficiency+ 3 2022-04-19
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
General, Research, Blog Series Blog Series: All About Vocabulary This blog series has been a long time coming. Vocabulary, vocabulary, vocabulary. Vocabulario, vocabulaire, 生词shēngcí,… AssessmentStrategies+ 3 2021-10-19
General A Simpler Way To Assess Oral Skills It’s the 21st century: Why do we keep taking 3 days to do oral exams… AssessmentAuthentic 2019-09-05
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 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 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 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 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