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Level Up with Learning Site: Boost Engagement with Nualang

In this session, educators explored how Nualang, our interactive communication platform accessed easily from within Learning Site®, helps students build confidence, accuracy, and fluency through meaningful, personalized practice. With flexible tools for speaking, listening, and collaboration, Nualang supports both quick classroom activities and deeper communicative work. 

Presenter: Alexis Buschert, Instructional Strategist 
Producer: Amy Rill, Instructional Technologist 

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What is Nualang? 

Nualang empowers students to practice real-world conversations in a fun, stress-free environment. It gives students frequent opportunities to listen, speak, read, and respond in the target language, with immediate feedback and built-in support. 

Teachers commonly use Nualang for: 

  • Warm-ups and fast finishers
  • Formative assessment
  • Homework and make-up work
  • Differentiation and review
  • Student speaking and collaboration 

Core Activity Types 

  • Phrase Practice: Translation, listening, and pronunciation with instant feedback
  • Scenarios: Interactive dialogues that build toward open speaking
  • Chatbots: Guided AI conversations
  • Discuss: Small-group recorded discussions with transcripts
  • Nuala News: Monthly current-event articles with activities
  • Live: A no-prep, class-wide game for review 

Built-In + Teacher-Created Content 

Nualang includes activities aligned to Wayside materials. Teachers can also create their own courses using AI tools to generate vocabulary, scenarios, and chatbot prompts. 

Assignment & Feedback 

Teachers can assign work, monitor progress, listen to recordings, review transcripts, and provide targeted feedback—all in one place. 

Seamless Access 

Students access Nualang directly from Learning Site or their LMS (Canvas, Schoology, etc.) with automatic class placement—no extra logins needed. 

Why Teachers Love Nualang 

Nualang helps increase student speaking time, supports comprehensible input, reduces teacher workload, and keeps students engaged in low-stress communication practice. 

Next Steps 

Watch the recording and try some of these activities with your students: 

  • Unit-based phrase practice
  • A Scenario
  • Or a Live game for quick engagement 

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