Integrating technology into world language classes can be an important tool to improve the quality of lessons and pique students’ interest in learning languages, says high school Spanish teacher Elena Spathis. ⁣ ⁣ Here are some of the tech tools she uses to help students practice speaking, listening, reading, and writing in the target language: ⁣ ⁣ 📌 Challenge Students with Quizlet: Creating a “study set” or a list of questions and corresponding answers only in the target language is great practice for novice learners, Spathis says. ⁣ ⁣ Introduce a bit of friendly competition between classmates by clicking “Live” on your study set and have students work in teams to pair questions to their corresponding meaning.⁣ ⁣ 📌 Speak, Listen, Draw with Pear Deck: Use the Pear Deck Chrome extension to create a combined listening and drawing activity, Spathis recommends. As she reads a description aloud in Spanish, students draw what they hear, and then each student shares what they drew with the ...