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First steps with the Sanako Study 1200 vocabulary test activity
- Click to watch an example below of the new (in version 6, we are now on 7) activity:”Vocabulary Test”
which allows you to administer during a face-top-face-class just exactly what its name says – - with these benefits:
- needing no paper,
- digital contents
- “can” and reuse past tests with ease
- TBA: can you swap target and source language?
- blending automated and teacher feedback:
- the example I give below is based on what the teacher gave me: single words and very short idiomatic expression.
- You can use longer phrases (I prefer teaching and studying vocabulary in context), but then it become increasingly unlikely that the automated feedback is accurate (The automated feedback is limited to exact, up to case-insensitive string matching – now distance metrics).
- You can override the automated feedback before sending the results back to the student. This is somewhat practical, since the submitting is fast and not all students will finish at the same time, and if you provided students with the follow up activity after submission, The teacher overriding the feedback gets unpractical in large classes, so it is recommended restricting the test to short source/target language pairs. Also be clear about or minimize punctuation and, if required, the format of other metalinguistic information (gender, plural forms etc).
- Issues:
- not communicative, how can this be used or fitted in with other activities to make best use of a fully computerized face-to-face teaching environment?
- simplistic autocorrecting algorithm (case-insensitive, otherwise exact, right or wrong, my way or the highway” string matching)
- no tracking, no memory, personalization only via the other built-in Sanako personalization features (groups – to be left to the teacher to handle)
- no learning content – at least no vocabulary learning materials usable out of the box for us (TBA).
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