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Manage your virtual language classes with the CL-150 Platform Posted by meaghan on Aug 13, 2020 in For Instructors
Language instructors need more than just a virtual meeting space like Teams or Zoom to deliver virtual acquisition courses, refresher courses, and other language training events effectively and efficiently. You need ways to organize your classes, create and schedule assignments, send messages, and track students’ progress from afar. You can slap together a bunch of…
Using CL-150 lessons synchronously in the virtual classroom Posted by meaghan on Aug 10, 2020 in For Instructors
CL-150 lessons aren’t just for independent learning or pre-class prep work. Language instructors, as you shift to virtual instruction, consider using lessons collaboratively during class time as well. Want to get your students talking? Help them produce the language in different contexts? Think critically about target language texts or videos? Practice grammar? Discuss culture? No…
Make social media time worth your time. Posted by meaghan on Aug 5, 2020 in For Learners
Language “maintenance” involves more than holding on to what you already know. Languages are constantly changing, and you need to keep up to stay current and effective. In German, for example, Hamsterkauf (literally “hamster buying”) showed up recently to describe pandemic-induced panic buying, as did “Coronaspeck” as a name for the weight gained during quarantine…
CL-150 Orientations & Training Materials Posted by meaghan on Jul 20, 2020 in For Instructors, For Learners, For Program Managers
Ever discover something you didn’t know you could do with a device or an app that you’ve used for a long time? I’ve had lots of those “I didn’t know I could do that!” moments with my iPhone over the years: from stumbling upon a “night shift” mode to spare my eyes from the bright…
Only have 30 minutes? Focus on skills with “Practice” activities! Posted by meaghan on Jul 15, 2020 in For Learners
In the last post you learned the most effective way to spend 10 minutes engaged with your language by refreshing your CL-150 Learned Vocab. But what if you have a bit more time to commit? Hit the ground running with CL-150 Practice activities—make your own custom lessons in seconds. It’s as easy as this: Pick…
CL-150 Cohort Lesson of the Month – June 2020 Posted by meaghan on Jun 30, 2020 in Cohort Lesson of the Month, For Learners, For Program Managers
Got grammar? CL-150 Cohort lessons now include more grammar practice than ever. This month’s featured Cohort lesson, from the Russian ILR 3 lesson stream, is both a reading and listening lesson, based on an article about the state of Russian politics and an accompanying radio clip from the same journalist: ILR 3, 06/29/20: “United Russia”…
Only have 10 minutes to spend on language today? Refresh your Learned Vocab. Posted by meaghan on Jun 24, 2020 in For Learners, New in Learned Vocab
During acquisition training, you spent day after day focused solely on language. But now you’re on the job, expected to focus full-time on the mission at hand—while still maintaining proficiency. Obviously you don’t have 40+ hours a week for language anymore, but let’s say you can carve out 10 minutes each day to dedicate to…