Sanako Connect transforms second language teaching for language educators (World languages, MFL, ESL, EFL) by offering a dedicated web-based platform tailored specifically to the needs of language teachers in schools and universities. Unlike most solutions, Sanako Connect prioritizes the development of students’ speaking, pronunciation, and listening skills, providing a comprehensive suite of tools and activities designed to address these critical areas.
With features such as simultaneous whole-class speaking and listening assignments, engaging live pair/group discussion and role-play activities, automated pronunciation grading, and seamless student recording and feedback capabilities, Sanako Connect empowers you to efficiently guide your students toward fluency.
As a teacher-led platform, Sanako Connect ensures that you as a teacher are always in control of your language classes in any teaching mode, being it in the classroom, remotely, live or asynchronously – making it the ultimate solution for professional language educators seeking to elevate language instruction to new heights.
Set up groups and pairs for live discussion activities and role plays to increase students’ speaking practice time. As a teacher you can easily monitor each group and collect individual group recordings for review and feedback.
Make your teaching time more efficient by performing whole class simultaneous speaking assessments and collect all individual students’ recordings automatically. Students can reflect by listening to their own recordings.
Help your students to master speaking and pronunciation in their target language by listening and repeating native-like speech models. The system provides automatic feedback and scoring (supports most modern languages).
Launch teacher-controlled live exams with just a few clicks! It’s great also for practicing for high-stakes exams like the World Languages AP® Exams and IELTS.
Create interactive tasks using any existing video or audio file and have your students to record their speech along the original. Great for interviews, consecutive and simultaneous interpreting training, or spontaneous speaking practice.
Sanako Connect is a real time saver for language educators. If you are using different apps and tools like Quizlet for vocabulary tests and flashcards, Kahoot for multiple choice questions and Audacity or Vocaroo for collecting students’ recordings, you will love Sanako Connect as it lets you to do all those things in one software tool.
Sanako Connect is easy to manage and hassle-free for the school IT department because it’s a scalable browser-based solution with concurrent user licensing. Usable at a class level, at a teacher level, at a school level, or even at a district level. You can start with one class and scale it when more teachers adopt the system in their classes.
Sanako Connect is accessible from anywhere using any combination of devices and operating systems (Windows, Mac, Chrome), including laptops, Chromebooks, tablets and smartphones. It’s super fast to use because your students do not need any login details as they join via a unique web-link or QR code. All your lesson files and materials are stored in a secure AWS cloud-based system with separate data locations for USA and Europe.
Sanako Connect can be used to teach any language and we support right-to-left and left-to-right writing systems. You can import your existing lesson materials or use the in-built content authoring tools to create interactive video tasks, speaking assessments, vocabulary tests, flashcard decks, listening comprehension, multiple choice questions, model imitation, gap-fill exercises and much more.
Sanako Connect helps you and your students to work on the most difficult parts of language learning process: intonation, speaking and pronunciation skills. With Sanako Connect you can increase your students’ speaking practice time up to 10X to what you can achieve with traditional teaching methods.
Sanako Connect’s best features for language educators at a glance:
