Sanako Connect demonstration image - Live group call screen on a black background

Live Group Discussion and Role-Play

Add students to pairs or groups based on ability or shuffle random groups to practice live discussion and role-plays.

  • • Monitor and join each group discussion

  • • Record each group discussion for feedback and allow students to reflect

  • • Use in the classroom or in hybrid and remote teaching

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Live Group Discussion and Role-Play

Screenshot of Sanako Connect's live group discussion activity

Add students to pairs or groups based on ability or shuffle random groups to practice live discussion and role-plays.

  • • Monitor and join each group discussion

  • • Record each group discussion for feedback and allow students to reflect

  • • Use in the classroom or in hybrid and remote teaching

Request demo

Increase speaking practice time

Dividing student into live pairs or groups allows them to have more time for speaking practice. You can choose to create groups by student ability or shuffle random groups to create fun and surprising moments.

Similarly to breakout rooms, you can switch between groups to monitor them or join the discussion. You can easily see the groups from your teacher view and provide immediate feedback.

Sanako Connect demonstration image - Adding students to random groups

What can you do with Sanako Connect’s discussion and role-play features?

Get your students to talk

Getting your students to speak more is one of the biggest tasks for language educators. Creating simultaneous live discussion groups or pairs allows all students to practice speaking with their peers and increase the time for this critical skill development.

Screenshot from Sanako Connect - A student pair engaged in learning new vocabulary
Sanako Connect demonstration image - Role play activity where students guide a lost tourist

Combine with lesson materials to create collaborative tasks

You can combine live discussion with any lesson materials and create role-play activities or collaborative task-based activities. You can for example add a street map of Paris and have your students role-play a tourist seeking instructions to Notre Dame. You are only limited by your imagination when creating collaborative tasks.

Launch group and pair discussions with just a few clicks

Group and pair discussions are available with a quick launch inside Sanako Connect. You can choose how many students you want into each group and the system automatically adds students into these groups. You can also choose to manually select students into the groups.

Sanako Connect demonstration image - Launch the group/pair discussion activity
Sanako Connect demonstration image - Recording a live group discussion

Record group discussions for review and reflection

You can record group discussions and collect them for review. You can also allow your students to listen back these recordings for self-reflection.

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Sanako Connect is a web-based language teaching hub that combines the best parts of virtual classroom solutions, language labs, and language teaching apps into one ultimate language teaching platform. It’s designed for professional language teachers, language departments, schools, and universities.

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