Learning Intelligence
In-house technology that works behind the scenes to enhance our students’ learning
In addition to our excellent teaching, Learn Spanish has developed technology that can further enhance our students’ progress: our Learning Intelligence system.
When switched on, this works (invisibly) during a lesson to analyse the student’s Spanish. After the lesson, the student receives a detailed report of their performance. This includes summary level assessment, ratings across the appropriate CEFR elements of language, and advice as to where to prioritise effort for maximum impact (including at phrase-level).
What Learning Intelligence does
Learning Intelligence serves both student and teacher, optimising the student’s progress towards their specific goals. After a lesson where Learning Intelligence has been used, both student and teacher receive a report that, firstly, gives a score and a summary relating to:
Conversational ability: fluency, interaction, vocabulary, grammar and natural expression, assessed against relevant CEFR standards.
Language activation: how effectively students turn what they know into spontaneous spoken Spanish.
Phrase-level feedback: specific examples of effective language, mistakes and opportunities for more natural expression.
Personalised development: strengths, weaknesses and recommendations for future learning.
With this, the student receives clear guidance as to how they are performing in each area. In addition, the report contains advice as to how to improve each element and where to prioritise.
The report also contains phrase-level analysis. This lists phrases that the student used during the lessons that could be improved. This might be error-correction or a suggestion as to how to express something more naturally or elegantly. For example:
“Estoy trabajando en Madrid por tres años” → should be “He trabajado en Madrid durante tres años.”
“Lo gusté mucho” → should be “Me gustó mucho.”
This feature has the immediate benefit of enabling the student to fix or upgrade the specifics of their Spanish. It also means that the teacher doesn’t have to interrupt the flow of lesson to address small but important issues in the moment.
Technology that, for our students that use it, works to enhance our teaching
Whether our students use this additional level of analysis is up to them. Those who prefer not to use it simply don’t. Some dip in and out according to requirement. Running Learning Intelligence once a month, for example, can provide insight as to rate of progress over time.
Many of our students have started learning via apps such as Duolingo and find Learning intelligence helps them to understand their ability (and potential) to deploy their language skills in conversation in the real world.
Whether a student uses this service or not, they, of course, still benefit from all of the personal attention and detailed feedback that their teacher provides personally.
No personal data is ever used outside of your own evaluation, and personal data can be deleted at any time on request.
The benefit of our experience with technology
To further enhance our students’ learning, we also provide guidance as to how to use chatbot prompts to drill particular elements of language. This is an area in which we have extensive experience and which can be an incredibly powerful tool to power language learning.
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