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.
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.…
A semester is like a journey. Wouldn’t it be great if we could cement this useful metaphor with a course format?
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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%
Memorizing new vocabulary using flashcards is a fast, social, fun, and efficient strategy for learning new vocabulary in your second language.