Teach your students how to figure out tricky texts in any language.
Syntax Untangler is an online activity that asks the learner to visually mark up a short primary text in any language, in order to improve small-scale reading skills. Any instructor can easily create and publish their own Syntax Untangler content (go to the Instructor Tools link). Players get instant feedback about whether they found the right answer(s).
Syntax Untangler is particularly designed for training language learners to recognize and parse linguistic features. Here are some things you could ask your students to do:
* Identify the parts of a separable-prefix verb within a German sentence.
* Draw where a syntax structure begins and ends in a short Chinese text.
* Mark and differentiate all the instances of alliteration, consonance, and assonance in a bit of poetry.
* In a bit of Java code, point out all the statements in a loop that might increment the loop counter.
Content authors (instructors) have full control over all text elements in the interface, so the experience can be 100% in the target language.
