Language learning: Ending the silent classroom with interactive strategies to engage every learner

Join two leading voices in language education to transform your language classes from passive listening and anxiety to active, high-impact interaction.

Featuring Lennie Amores, Educator and Learning Experience Designer at Lincoln University and Emma Almingefeldt, Lecturer, Second Language and Foreign Language at the University of Borås.

This session will provide practical, research-based strategies to address your biggest language classroom challenges, including:

• Silence and anxiety: Discover how to create the psychological safety needed to boost oral participation and ensure every learner contributes, regardless of their proficiency or fear of making mistakes.
• Passive listening & comprehension gaps: Learn how to use immediate, visual feedback to make comprehension visible, turning silent listening into measurable understanding during demanding audio and reading tasks.
• Forgetting & monotony: Explore techniques for sustaining engagement and leveraging tools that ensure vocabulary and grammar stick, transforming repetitive exercises into collective, memorable challenges.
• Scaling & measurement: See how to implement a consistent, inclusive, and measurable pedagogy across your language faculty, aligning your program with the competency-based approach of the CEFR and the ACTFL.