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Posted onAugust 21, 2022August 31, 2022Features for teachers

Automated Level Placement: Are we there yet?

by Nicholas Walker

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.

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Posted onMay 11, 2022January 4, 2023Features 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, 2022December 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 7, 2022January 9, 2022Features for teachers

New Feature: Automatically Scored Emails

by Nicholas Walker

Email writing is one of the most common writing tasks that adults do. As teachers, it is time to put practical writing tasks at the center of our ESL pedagogy. Here’s how.

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Posted onDecember 30, 2021January 3, 2022Features for teachers

New Feature: Automatically Scored Dictation Exercises

by Nicholas Walker

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.

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Posted onDecember 20, 2021January 1, 2022Features for teachers

New Feature: Automatically Scored Speaking Assignment

by Nicholas Walker

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…

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Posted onDecember 20, 2021January 6, 2022Features for teachers

New Feature: Automated Email Reminders

by Nicholas Walker

Automated email reminders on Labodanglais help procrastinators keep up with the homework.

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