Writing compare and contrast essays takes time, but evaluating them need not rob teachers of their weekends. Labodanglais and Virtual Writing Tutor can evaluate this type of essay in seconds, hundreds at a time, draft after draft, promoting revision and better engagement.
Competency-based education does not mean that teachers should select a listening test at random or suppose that introducing the theme the lesson before the test is likely to be adequate preparation for our weakest students. Demonstrating a ministerial competency is achieved by performing a predictable complex task after step-by-step instruction.
Teachers like me want an online test that measures all four language skills and arrives at the same level placement recommendation as expert teachers would arrive at. With our innovative new evaluation tools, I think Labodanglais.com is getting closer to that goal. Here’s why.
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.