How to teach beginner ESL students
It can be difficult to teach beginner ESL students, but in this post we explore...
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As you may already know, your ESL students log in to Off2Class (with accounts that you set up for them) to complete homework assignments, review lesson summaries, take placement tests, complete quizzes and track progress. Many teachers in our community have expressed a desire to translate Off2Class into their student’s L1. We’re excited to announce that we’ve released this feature today! You can now translate Off2Class’ student interface for your ESL students.
When you choose to translate your ESL student’s interface on Off2Class we will change the language that they use to interact with Off2Class including:
Great for new students!
Translating Off2Class for your ESL students can be especially useful when you’re onboarding new (sometimes prospective) ESL students. It can make it easier to get your students logged into Off2Class and completing the placement test or homework you’ve assigned to them.
Thanks to the Off2Class Community!
We’d like to extend special gratitudes to Przemysław Jankowski (who provided us with the Polish translation) and Tina Antoniades (who provided us with the Greek translation). It’s wonderful to have teachers with us from such diverse linguistic backgrounds!
So far we have 8 languages!
We’re releasing our student interface language feature with an initial 8 languages (Chinese, Turkish, Polish, Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese). If we’re missing your ESL student’s L1 – feel free to get in touch. We’d like to expand our language offering and you may be able to help us get the translation live!
Since launching the student interface translation we’ve added 10 more language options. You can now translate Off2Class into: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese.
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This is great it puts another tool in our toolbox to help students better understand questions especially when they are beginner English learners – Thanks
Thanks Alfred!
Indeed, for lower level learners this tool may be helpful. Thank you.
Cheers Cleona! Thanks for stopping by!
How cool is that!!
Will you be adding German soon?
Hi John!
Nice to hear from you. It’s been ages. We already have added German! It was in our second ‘mini-release’ of languages. Our focus now is getting Russian, Korean and Arabic up.
Kind Regards,
Kris
Will you add Thai soon?
Thank you!
Hi Ken! Always looking to add more languages and we’ll put Thai on the list!
Do you offer Japanese translations for the student interface?
I watched a youtube.com video to change the language and the options on the menu did not include Japanese?
Japanese isn’t currently supported, but we add languages by request, so I’ll add a vote for it!