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
Extempore How-To's, Research, Guest Post How to Use Comprehensible Input to Gradually Lead Students to Linguistic Output In this post, learn five strategies for teaching comprehensible input that guides students towards confident… AssessmentProficiency+ 2 2022-10-18
Extempore How-To's, Featured Tasks, Analysis, and More: 4 Assessments for Building Written and Oral Proficiency on Extempore Over the past few months our blog has been on hiatus, getting some much needed… AssessmentProficiency+ 4 2022-08-15
General, Extempore How-To's, Featured Did You Hear? Listening Assessments on Extempore In one of our most recent blogs, I wrote about different ways to assess target language reading… AssessmentProficiency+ 3 2022-05-26
Extempore How-To's, Featured Beyond Who, What, Where: 8+ Ways to Assess Target Language Reading Comprehension Extempore, The Speaking Practice App. That’s us! Teachers can create oral assessments in minutes and… AssessmentStrategies+ 3 2022-02-23
General, Extempore How-To's, Featured 3 Super Assessments to Showcase Extempore's Versatility Ask anyone around the Extempore office, and they'll tell you it's quite frequent (almost weekly) for… AssessmentProficiency+ 6 2022-02-10
Extempore How-To's, Featured A Classroom Activity for All Three Modes of Communication: One Minute News In this post, I take a break from our vocabulary blog series to look at a… AssessmentInterpersonal+ 7 2021-11-16
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, Extempore How-To's, Featured Unique Ways to Use Extempore #3: Freewrites / Freetalks If your students were dropped into the target language environment by themselves right at this… AssessmentStrategies+ 1 2021-01-04
General, Extempore How-To's, Featured, Blog Series Blog Series: 4 Unique Ways to Use Extempore to Enhance Your Language Teaching Part I - Overview Extempore, The Speaking Practice App, that’s us. On Extempore, flexible features… AssessmentStrategies+ 3 2020-12-04
Extempore How-To's But my students can’t assess their own progress! It turns out they can, and rather accurately. Paula Winke (2014), from the University of… Self-AssessmentFormative Assessment 2017-05-23
General It’s More Than Speaking Practice Besides extra speaking practice for your students and a simpler way to assess spontaneous speech,… Formative AssessmentBuilding Rapport 2017-05-03