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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 27, 2021December 29, 2021Pedagogical ideas

Give Your ESL Course a Personality Test

by Nicholas Walker

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…

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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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Posted onDecember 20, 2021May 18, 2022Features for teachers

Icon Navigation

by Nicholas Walker

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…

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Posted onDecember 19, 2021December 23, 2021Features for teachers

Red Pens

by Nicholas Walker

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’…

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Posted onDecember 19, 2021May 20, 2022Features for teachers

Why Labo?

by Nicholas Walker

Labodanglais.com makes English learning more coherent, authentic, rewarding, and efficient, while reducing teachers’ workloads—making courses more joyful for everyone!

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Posted onDecember 6, 2021January 2, 2022Textbooks and courses

Actively Engaged Together

by Nicholas Walker

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.

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Posted onDecember 5, 2021December 29, 2021Textbooks and courses

Actively Engaged Online

by Nicholas Walker

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.

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