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
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, 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
General, Extempore How-To's, Research All About Vocabulary Part III: Putting Vocabulary Front and Center Whoah, it's 2022? Happy New Year! We’ve arrived at what’s now the third installment of our… AssessmentProficiency+ 2 2022-01-06
General, Extempore How-To's, Featured Practical Proficiency in a Pandemic: Now What? This blog is a supplemental resource to pair with our recent webinar, “Practical Proficiency in… ProficiencyStrategies 2021-12-02
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, Extempore How-To's, Research All About Vocabulary Part II — What Does the Research Say? All About Vocabulary Part II — What does the research say? Welcome to part… AssessmentProficiency+ 1 2021-11-02
General, Research Part I - Vocabulary in the Classroom: Thoughts and Strategies on Acquisition and Assessment Part I - Vocabulary in the Classroom: Thoughts and Strategies on Acquisition and Assessment Welcome… AssessmentProficiency+ 5 2021-10-19
Extempore How-To's Routines, Repetition, and Frequent Exposure in the Language Classroom Author’s note: for examples of routine language practice and its application on Extempore, scroll down… Oral ReadingProficiency+ 1 2021-09-14