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Posted onMay 20, 2022May 24, 2022Pedagogical ideas

What is a Pedagogical Narrative?

by Nicholas Walker

A pedagogical narrative is a highly structured story that includes context, characters, a series of dramatic events, and their consequences—creating obligatory meaningful contexts for target grammar, vocabulary, and pragmatics.

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Posted onMay 11, 2022May 12, 2022Features for teachers

Create a Labo course with Sharing Cart

by Nicholas Walker

Would you like to start using the automated evaluation tools on Labodanglais.com with your students—but without a book? You could spend your summer developing a course for your students. Sure. But one summer might not be enough. If only there were some content that you could use! Well, there is.…

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Posted onMay 11, 2022May 11, 2022Features for teachers

Trail Course Format

by Nicholas Walker

A semester is like a journey. Wouldn’t it be great if we could cement this useful metaphor with a course format?

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Posted onMay 7, 2022May 7, 2022Features for teachers

Download all course files

by Nicholas Walker

Tired of downloading files one-by-one. Download them all with a well-organized, nested file structure. All students and teachers can download all files at once as a zip archive in one shot. Here’s how. Click the Download center link You’ll find it near the top of the navigation drawer on the…

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Posted onMay 5, 2022May 6, 2022Features for teachers

Automatically scored pronunciation quizzes

by Nicholas Walker

Many teachers see pronunciation as all packaging with no need for any content. We sometimes assume that if we can help students get the pronunciation right, the teacher’s job is done. But one of the central proposals of communicative language teaching methods is that language learning activities should be as…

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Posted onMay 3, 2022May 26, 2022Features for teachers

Automatically scored orals

by Nicholas Walker

Formative evaluations are one of the best ways to help students understand where they are now and what they need to do to achieve the objectives. The problem with formative oral evaluations is that students get very anxious and refuse to even try unless it counts because they don’t want…

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Posted onJanuary 11, 2022January 11, 2022Pedagogical ideas

Formative Evaluation

by Nicholas Walker

Imagine two students. One student took the practice test before taking the test that counts. The other student skipped the practice test. Which student do you think will do better on the final test? The answer is pretty obvious.

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Posted onJanuary 11, 2022January 11, 2022Pedagogical ideas

Letters to the House of Commons

by Nicholas Walker

To help students put their argumentation skills to use in our democracy, repurposed the argument essay discourse model they learned in Actively Engaged in Persuasion to write a letter to the House of Commons in Ottawa. Here’s what happened.

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Posted onJanuary 9, 2022January 11, 2022Pedagogical ideas

Reciprocal Teaching

by Nicholas Walker

Students learn much more when they teach each other compared with when the teacher does all of the teaching (Hattie, 2009). Students teaching each other is called reciprocal teaching, and it has the second biggest effect on student achievement of all the classroom processes, accelerating learning by 37%

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Posted onJanuary 9, 2022January 9, 2022Pedagogical ideas

Flashcards

by Nicholas Walker

Memorizing new vocabulary using flashcards is a fast, social, fun, and efficient strategy for learning new vocabulary in your second language.

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