by afrar | Jul 17, 2024 | Rosetta Stone
In part 1 we talked about the benefits of the Rosetta Stone; let’s go now to the drawbacks: First of all, Rosetta Stone does not provide you with the opportunity to speak in any meaningful way. While it correctly focuses on listening comprehension as the base for any...
by afrar | Jul 17, 2024 | Assessments
After the activities are over, it will be good for you to sit down with the learner and discuss with him or her how the current language learning process is going. What is he struggling with? What is she enjoying? What are they doing in their language lessons, if...
by afrar | Jul 17, 2024 | Assessments
In the last four posts, I’ve talked about why (and why not) to assess your language proficiencies, and what skills to assess. This time, we’ll look at the all-important question of how to actually do the assessment. To begin, start by using the three (or five, if...
by afrar | Jul 17, 2024 | Blog
He was a very nice guy, but the worst teacher I’ve ever had. He had a lot to say, but was totally incapable of teaching us. His major motivation was to teach us his religion and not his language. But that’s not why we were in his classroom. Even worse, he got angry...
by afrar | Jul 17, 2024 | Assessments
Last time I started looking at the skills you want to assess under the listening comprehension . Now on to speaking skills: Range: What kinds of topics can the learner speak about? What domains of life are out of his/her range? How deeply can he/she talk about a given...
