Vocabulary Practice in Lingolift

There are many supports built into Lingolift to help boost students’ language acquisition, which can be used as needed. This approach empowers students to take charge of their learning and supports the practice of gradual release of responsibility, in which students become increasingly independent in their learning. This article walks through the key features of Lingolift and offers some recommendations for your routines:

Dictionary Supports

During the Watch part of a Lingolift video lesson, students can click on any word in the captions and see a definition:

By pressing the speaker icon, they can hear the word read aloud. They can hear the individual phonemes by clicking the smaller boxes below the word.

The blue Texthelp toolbar provides an additional layer of language support for students. They can highlight text and have it read aloud or translated into 16 languages. They can also highlight one word and see an English dictionary definition, translation, or picture dictionary.

Featured Words and Student-Selected Words

All video lessons include pre-selected featured vocabulary words (underlined in the captions during Watch) that all students will practice throughout the lesson. If students click on words during Watch, these student-selected words are added to their vocabulary list, and students will practice these words along with the featured words during the Learn and Speak steps. 

Students can review their list of words before doing Learn. The featured words have the lock icon next to them, while the student-selected words have a green check mark:

Student can add more chosen words to their list after Watch via the "All Words" tab. This video shows the process of adding words to their vocabulary list:

You can review the vocabulary students learned during their video lessons and track overall student progress from the Reports widget on your dashboard. This article details how to find each report on Lingolift and this article dives into the Watch, Learn, Speak reporting.