What kind of drills should I create?
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2022 11:53 pm
I am writing an online text book/grammar for Tagalog. One of the main requests from the users of the beta edition was to include more drills/exercises. As it stands, each lesson has a vocabulary list and 10 sample sentences. There is audio, and you can hide/show the English/Tagalog to aid in memorization.
The sample sentences build upon the preceding grammar, meaning in addition to grammar points of the current lessons, they include sufficient grammar from previous lesson to ensure that each point is adequately reviewed in the book. So they are sometimes more complicated that if I were to only cover the grammar in the current lesson.
In addition to those sample sentences, I’ve been writing “drill” sentences, which are supposed to be simple sentences that only necessarily cover the current lesson’s grammar points. Regarding drills, I am a big fan of L1 to L2 full sentence translation. Imo, it requires more recall and is more effective than any other format, so that’s all I need. But I understand others might prefer simpler drills.
1) What type of simpler drills would you recommend? I would prefer that they are subsets of the sentences I’ve already written. The two possibilities I can think of are cloze deletion and sentence building.
2) In addition to being able to hide/show/play audio on the site, I am going to allow users to download the text and audio for the drills so that they can load them in SRS. What form would you recommend I put this data in?
The sample sentences build upon the preceding grammar, meaning in addition to grammar points of the current lessons, they include sufficient grammar from previous lesson to ensure that each point is adequately reviewed in the book. So they are sometimes more complicated that if I were to only cover the grammar in the current lesson.
In addition to those sample sentences, I’ve been writing “drill” sentences, which are supposed to be simple sentences that only necessarily cover the current lesson’s grammar points. Regarding drills, I am a big fan of L1 to L2 full sentence translation. Imo, it requires more recall and is more effective than any other format, so that’s all I need. But I understand others might prefer simpler drills.
1) What type of simpler drills would you recommend? I would prefer that they are subsets of the sentences I’ve already written. The two possibilities I can think of are cloze deletion and sentence building.
2) In addition to being able to hide/show/play audio on the site, I am going to allow users to download the text and audio for the drills so that they can load them in SRS. What form would you recommend I put this data in?