# extemporeapp.com > AI-optimized mirror of extemporeapp.com containing 25 pages totalling 11,794 words of clean markdown content, structured data, and semantic HTML. Original source: https://extemporeapp.com/. Last updated: 2026-06-15T06:40:23.230Z. Each page is available as HTML (with JSON-LD structured data) and Markdown (text-only, ideal for LLMs and RAG). ## Homepage - [Language Assessments](/content/site-root.html): Performance. Proficiency. Progress. Secure assessments. All modes of communication. All in one place. Help your students build their proficiency and confidence today! (430 words) ## Articles & Blog Posts - [How it Works](/content/how-it-works/index.html): Extempore allows language teachers to develop students' reading, writing, listening, speaking, and cultural skills in a target language. Accessible on all devices, Extempore facilitates daily tasks and formal assessments, creating more opportunities to help students achieve linguistic proficiency and cultural competence. (252 words) - [blog/online-field-trips/index.html](/content/blog/online-field-trips/index.html) (1 words) - [Facilitating Proficiency-Based Learning | Part 1.3: How do learners demonstrate communication?](/content/blog/proficiency-based-learning-1-3.html): Keeping our focus on communicating for a purpose, we ask learners to demonstrate their learning by completing simulated or real-life tasks. It's important to note that these tasks are not designed for learners to show they can use the past tense or another grammatical structure. Rather, they are designed to elicit communication, like having learners describe and compare experiences. (1,593 words) - [3 New Ways to Use Extempore This School Year](/content/blog/3-new-ways-to-use-extempore-this-school-year/index.html): The new school year always means new possibilities, old clichés, and anticipation for what's to come along the way. Who are we to stop ourselves from providing you with a dose of all three? As you set up shop and brace yourself for the highs and lows of the academic year, try your hand at these refreshing ways to use Extempore in your language classes. (743 words) - [Facilitating Proficiency-Based Learning | Part 2: Communication - In What Ways Do Learners Communicate?](/content/blog/proficiency-based-learning-1-2.html): Examining language in terms of language functions helps us see ways in which language is used for a purpose. Purpose is essential to real communication, and it is through language functions that learners accomplish a purpose. For example, the ACTFL Performance Descriptors list the following functions: “ask formulaic questions; initiate, maintain, and end a conversation; create with language; narrate and describe; and make inferences. (856 words) - [Facilitating Proficiency-Based Learning | Part 2.1: Developing Curriculum](/content/blog/proficiency-based-learning-2-1.html): In Part 1, we discussed what we want learners to be proficient at and answered with communication. We want learners to be able to interpret and convey their intended message in the target language. Along these lines, ACTFL resources help us understand the ways in which learners are able to communicate at various stages in their learning. Learners demonstrate communication through performance, which is elicited by tasks and assessed using rubrics. (886 words) - [Facilitating Proficiency-Based Learning | Part 1: Communicating, Framing, and Demonstrating](/content/blog/proficiency-based-learning-1-1.html): In the context of world language education, learners become more proficient at using language to communicate their intended message for a meaningful purpose. Traditionally learner outcomes might have included such things as being able to name two ways to formulate the past tense. However proficiency-based language learning requires learners (859 words) - [Facilitating Proficiency-Based Learning | Part 2.2: Determine Acceptable Evidence](/content/blog/proficiency-based-learning-2-2.html): Designing performance tasks that reflect how we often communicate in real life would elicit all three modes: interpretive, interpersonal and presentational communication. Lucky for us, we can use the popular Integrated Performance Assessments, commonly referred to as IPAs. (911 words) - [Facilitating Proficiency-Based Learning](/content/blog/proficiency-based-learning-2-3.html): Over the course of a thematic unit, educators provide learners with multiple practice opportunities in interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational communication, each suited to the learners’ performance levels. The examples in this blog illustrate only a few of the communicative experiences learners might engage in for practice and feedback during a unit of study. An array of experiences would be provided for learners, from highly scaffolded - where learners might complete sentence frames - to less scaffolded - where learners answer open-ended questions. (734 words) - [Inspiring Inquiry With Images Using the PALMSSS Strategy](/content/blog/palmsss/index.html): If I had to pick only one resource to inspire inquiry and curiosity in my classes, it would be images. Whether it’s fine art, a video from social media, a doodle, or even one of the thousands of photos I’ve taken in my travels over the years, imagery always evokes a response in the viewer. This reaction can be a powerful motivator to connect curiosity with communities and cultures, which strongly aligns with our goals in the world language classroom.  After all, as one of my mentors has often reminded me, our classes should be built around interesting topics of discussion. (922 words) - [A Guide to Extempore Commons](/content/blog/extempore-commons/index.html): Extempore Commons, our robust library of importable practice and assessment content for both ESL and world language, is an integral part of the Extempore platform. With Commons, you can use the filters to find the precise assessment or practice that you are looking for. So whether that's a novice-level French warm-up or simulated conversation practice for AP exams, you'll be able to find whatever you need. (590 words) - [Blog Series - Facilitating Proficiency-Based Learning](/content/blog/blog-series-facilitating-proficiency-based-learning.html): To understand proficiency-based learning, it is helpful to recognize that the term may be used differently by different people or organizations. Likewise, there are also other, similar terms like 'competency-based learning' or 'standards-based learning.' Throughout this series, I’ll be touching on some important aspects of proficiency-based learning in the context of learner performance from my experience as a world language educator and consultant. Let's break how this blog series will look. (499 words) - [Facilitating Proficiency-Based Learning | Part 1.4: Proficiency-Based Learning as a Framework](/content/blog/proficiency-based-learning-1-4.html): A framework for learning provides structure to set goals, guide curriculum and develop assessments. A framework outlines a direction, but allows multiple pathways. Educators, learners and program directors are all supported by the shared, overarching organization of a framework. (608 words) - [Extempore Announces Strategic Partnership with 3ipunt to Expand Presence in Europe](/content/blog/3ipunt-partnership/index.html) (379 words) - [Press Release: Securian Financial Foundation Awards $200k Grant to Promote Minnesota Seal of Biliteracy](/content/blog/seal-of-biliteracy-200k-grant/index.html): Extempore, a Minnesota language practice and assessment company, has received, in partnership with MN Zej Zog, a local nonprofit focused on promoting Hmong language and culture, a grant of $200,000 from the Securian Financial Foundation in Saint Paul, Minnesota. (756 words) - [Drop In and Other Exciting Updates to Extempore Sync](/content/blog/extempore-drop-in/index.html): Some exciting news to share: synchronous rooms on Extempore now come equipped with our newest feature, Extempore Drop In. Get ready to (metaphorically and safely) parachute in from above to drop in to your students' live interpersonal conversations within Extempore Sync. For more, watch the overview video and read up on all the details below. 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