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You’ve just taught new structures in the perfect tense. You model it, practise it across the different skills, and ask, “Does everyone understand?”. Thirty heads nod. A few students produce a correct sentence and the lesson feels like a success. Two weeks later, the writing tells a different story: French: Je suis mangé, j’ai allé Spanish: Ayer yo voy al cine German: Ich habe nach Berlin gefahren Checking understanding is harder than it looks, and grammar and accuracy is wher

This post is a follow-up to the Linguascope Adaptive Teaching Webinar, which Jennifer Wozniak-Rush and I run on Tuesday 2nd June. A lot of the conversation in our recent webinar centred on how we support students better: how we scaffold, adapt, and respond to where learners are in the moment. And that conversation matters enormously. But several of you came back afterwards with the same question, and it is a good one: 'If we are always scaffolding, always supporting, always a