Dictation exercises accelerate learning. They help you remember words, they help you remember how they are spelled and pronounced, and they help you learn capitalization and punctuation rules that are difficult to learn otherwise.
People can take personality tests. So can ESL courses. Different courses emphasize different learning goals, and suit some students better than others. Does your course reflect your personality or does it have a personality of its own? You have probably heard of the Briggs-Myers Test, right? Briggs-Myers has been around…
Students told me that they want help with their pronunciation, so I developed an automatically scored speaking assignment. Students read the prompt and compose their answer to a question, finish a sentence, or translate a phrase. Then, the student records his or her response with a microphone and submits it…
Automated email reminders on Labodanglais help procrastinators keep up with the homework.
Students have told me that they had trouble navigating 15 weeks of lessons on Labodanglais.com. A long list of links and text is a lot to process in your second language. The problem becomes more acute on smaller screens. To help students navigate, I added icons. Now each lesson has…
I sent CEGEP ESL teachers across Quebec red pens inscribed with the words “Don’t use this pen.” Why? I want teachers to try Labodanglais.com. It’s a Moodle-based website with companion courses for the Actively Engaged Series. Labo is packed with engaging content and interactive features, and it can score students’…
Labodanglais.com makes English learning more coherent, authentic, rewarding, and efficient, while reducing teachers’ workloads—making courses more joyful for everyone!
Actively Engaged Together is designed for the students with low-proficiency, anxiety, and a limited repertoire of practice strategies. As such, it focuses on basic interpersonal communication skills through storytelling and an automatically scored 8-topic pen pal writing project.
Many low and high intermediate students can watch videos and read short social media posts in English online, but can they produce videos and blog posts of their own? Actively Engaged Online will train your students to communicate online as they prepare for a job that might not exist yet.
For B-block students at the high-beginner level, the Ministry competency statement specifically calls for new ideas, acceptable grammar, field-related vocabulary, and revision strategies. This textbook gets every student to meet those goals with enthusiasm and laughter.