A Spanish secondary school solved the perennial problem of uneven participation in language classes by giving every student their own conversation partner.
At IES Virgen del Collado in Spain, Director Juan Alberto Marquez faced a challenge familiar to every language teacher: in a class of 25+ students, only a handful would speak during oral activities. The rest listened passively, rarely getting the chance — or the courage — to practice.
Traditional methods like pair work and group discussions helped, but they couldn't guarantee that every student would speak meaningfully during every lesson. Quieter students consistently fell through the cracks.
The school adopted Beyond Words to ensure that every single student gets speaking practice during every session. With each student working through their own conversation scenario simultaneously, the problem of uneven participation disappeared.
Teachers could now hear from students who had never spoken before, track everyone's progress through the analytics dashboard, and differentiate instruction based on real speaking data rather than guesswork.
The transformation was immediate. For the first time, 100% of students were actively speaking during language sessions. Teachers no longer had to worry about which students were being left behind — the data showed exactly who was practicing and how they were progressing.
The school now uses Beyond Words as a core part of its language instruction, with speaking practice sessions integrated into the regular timetable.
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