Build your language learning app.
Build language practice around responses, corrections and review intervals.
How to build your language learning app
Describe the job
Build language practice around responses, corrections and review intervals.
Review the first version
Choose how the learner records the learner level and how the language tutor reviews the next step.
Refine the views
Ask First to adjust the fields and views for the people who will use the app.
Test before sharing
Walk through the process with a sample record and check who owns the next action.
A language learning app example
A learner repeats a phrase correctly once after a hint.
Language learning app example
- Record
- Language learning app · 01
- Owner
- Learner
Current stage · Learner
Open the learner level
A learner repeats a phrase correctly once after a hint.
Read the full walkthrough
Open the learner level
A learner repeats a phrase correctly once after a hint.
- Record:
- Language learning app · 01
- Owner:
- Learner
Review the progress
Record assisted practice separately from an unassisted recall attempt.
- Stage:
- Awaiting language tutor review
- Owner:
- Language tutor
Keep assisted practice distinct from an unassisted recall attempt
Keep assisted practice distinct from an unassisted recall attempt.
- Next action:
- Keep assisted practice distinct from an unassisted recall attempt.
- Owner:
- Lesson creator
What to include in your language learning app
Keep the learner level in context
Keep learner level, practice item, response, correction source, review interval and progress together so the next person can understand the request or record.
When the next step needs a decision
A learner repeats a phrase correctly once after a hint. Record assisted practice separately from an unassisted recall attempt.
Keep progress visible
Keep assisted practice distinct from an unassisted recall attempt.
Choose what each person needs
Give the learner a working view and the language tutor a review view. Keep learner level and practice item attached to the decision as the work moves between them.
Questions about language learning app
Start with learner level, practice item, response, correction source, review interval and progress. Describe who enters the information and who reviews the next step.