Lexogoth offers many opportunities for those learning or teaching French. But how can you use the program thoughtfully in the classroom or for self-study?
At the core of this experience is a unique philosophy: we believe language acquisition happens when learners shift from passive observers to active creators. This is why Lexogoth is built around two closely integrated pillars: a vast, high-quality corpus of over 40,000 authentic entries and the Lexical Toolbox, the active engine that allows both students and teachers to manipulate, analyze, and internalize that data.
Why use Lexogoth in the classroom?
Authentic language use: Lexogoth gives learners access to real French sentences taken from films, media, forums, and conversations. These examples are carefully filtered and annotated for educational use. No artificial textbook sentences, but language as it is truly used.
Active processing with the Toolbox: eachers can seamlessly extract corpus data, analyze complex language patterns, and import custom texts to design personalized study paths, interactive tests, or printable handouts. This transforms the classroom into a dynamic lab where students don’t just observe French, but actively manipulate it to build their own lexical databases.
Awareness of register: Students learn to handle French appropriately in different contexts (formal, informal, familiar, colloquial, etc.).
Differentiation: With its large number of examples, the Lexogoth corpus suits both strong and weaker learners.
Flexible for any theme: Whether you’re working on health, relationships, media, politics, or social media, you’ll find all the necessary (lexical) materials in Lexogoth.
Efficient vocabulary acquisition: Students learn chunks and collocations in context, leading to faster and more natural language use (see the chapter on methodology for more details).
Time-saving for teachers: No more hours spent searching for useful example sentences or appropriate expressions—you’ll find more than enough in Lexogoth.
How can you use Lexogoth as a student?
- Preparing speaking or writing tasks
When preparing a speaking or writing assignment on a specific topic, you can run targeted searches using keywords related to your theme. The returned example sentences help you structure your ideas and build your text. These results provide both linguistic and content-based support: linguistically, they show how key words can be used in context; thematically, the sentences broaden your lexical field.
For instance, if you’re working on “réchauffement climatique” (climate change), searching terms like “réchauffement (climatique)”, “pollution”, “température”, “santé”, or “problème” will already give you a solid foundation. - Active practice with the Lexical Toolbox: Take full control of your learning process with the integrated Lexical Toolbox, designed to make your vocabulary study significantly more efficient. You can easily collect relevant examples from the corpus and save them into your own personalized databases. Once you have built a collection, you can generate interactive tests to challenge yourself, transforming passive reading into active retrieval practice that ensures vocabulary actually sticks. Additionally, the powerful Workbench module enables guided reading of your own French texts. By importing a text, you gain direct, instant access to the entire Lexogoth corpus to clarify word meanings, check registers, and analyze grammatical patterns on the spot. This combination ensures that new lexical patterns quickly and naturally become part of your active French repertoire.
- Studying vocabulary
Lexogoth is also ideal for studying vocabulary. When learning difficult words—such as linking words or verbs—you can look up real example sentences to understand how they’re actually used. This method leads to a much deeper understanding of the language. - Daily reading and vocabulary expansion
The program is also intended as a reading and learning tool. Learners who want to expand their French over time can set aside a few minutes each day to explore new words. Since many words recur across contexts, learners gradually internalize them through repeated exposure. This not only improves fluency but also increases expressive ability. - Revising A–B level topics
You can review important A and B level topics independently using the clear, structured grammar, vocabulary, and language function lessons included in the program. - Verb conjugation module
Lexogoth includes a built-in conjugation tool that covers most French verbs. When in doubt, you can instantly check verb forms with a single click.
How can teachers use Lexogoth in class?
- Explaining lexical problems
Lexogoth is a helpful tool in class for explaining vocabulary challenges. For example, the difference between “prêter” and “emprunter” becomes immediately clear through the program’s many example sentences. It’s also useful for illustrating complex constructions or word meanings. - Creating custom study paths with the Lexical Toolbox: Teachers can use the Lexical Toolbox to move beyond the standard curriculum and create highly personalized learning materials. With the integrated Lexogoth Workbench, you can import any French text to automatically perform POS-tagging and identify Multi-Word Expressions (MWEs). By searching your text for specific grammatical patterns (such as tenses or parts of speech) and synchronizing them with the Lexogoth corpus, you can quickly compile tailored datasets for any lesson or student group. These custom selections can be transformed into interactive exercises, enhanced with pedagogical footnotes, or exported as structured concordances. This feature is particularly powerful for differentiation: it allows you to challenge high-achievers with complex grammatical nuances extracted from the corpus, while simultaneously providing foundational, scaffolded vocabulary and supportive texts to students who need extra reinforcement.
- Lesson and assessment preparation
The example sentences in Lexogoth can support lesson planning and test creation. Teachers can, for instance, prepare lists of key terms and relevant examples to guide students during speaking or writing exercises,like the earlier example with “réchauffement climatique”. - Quick classroom reference
Lexogoth can be used as a fast and practical reference tool in class—for looking up synonyms, idiomatic usage, examples, meanings, translations, or language register issues on the spot. - Remediation support
Teachers can also use Lexogoth to design remediation paths for students who are falling behind. The program includes the most important grammar, vocabulary, and language functions for level A of the CEFR. If a student is struggling with a particular topic, the teacher can direct them to the relevant sections for review and practice.
Here are some concrete examples showing how you can use Lexogoth during learning and practice sessions: