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 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
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
General The role of vocabulary in building fluency: Making students aware Do you remember those days when you were a beginning language learner and you became… Self-AssessmentFormative Assessment+ 1 2017-03-12
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 Speaking Self-Reflection: It's Not Just For Writing Anymore If you're a teacher, you probably already know that one of the big pushes in… AssessmentSelf-Assessment+ 1 2016-09-08
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 20 Fun How-To Tasks to Get Your Students Talking Although students and teachers occupy the same space throughout much of the day, it won't… AssessmentFormative Assessment 2016-08-04