Learning language

LSS tracks the amount of time users spend on a page and some of their activities.

Which students read the material?  How long?   

Learning should be evident by learners spending less time to accomplish a task.

Time spent reviewing can be correlated with outcomes. 

Some learners will require one minute to grasp new material while some will be shaky after an hour.  Having rich material available will help all learners.  

Studying rich material at their own pace and long as is helpful will enable learners to come to class prepared and provide more time for practice, production, and feedback.

An overall approach to aiding review:

This system is heavily influenced by the programmed learning approach pioneered by

track revisions of material 

compare to see progress

move back if necessary

1. teacher may view assignments:
1. current, past, future
2. a set of classes
3. a summary of student activity: draft, missing, submitted, and final
2. for a single assignment by student:
1. graded, to be graded
2. submitted, draft, final, missing

It is highly valuable to expand on what learner's know.  How do you determine what words learners already know?

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This school of thought is that fluency counts most in language mastery and vocabulary is the most important part of fluency.  For example, even if the learner's pronunciation is poor if he strings together a full meaningful sentence a native is likely to understand and the learner will get the face time so vital to learning.

one overall strategy