How to See the New Words Your Student Learned in English Class
How to automatically identify which new words your student encountered in English class, without taking notes during the lesson or asking afterward.
After a conversation class, do you know exactly which new words your student used or heard for the first time? In practice, that's hard to track. During the lesson you're leading the conversation, correcting mistakes, encouraging the student to keep speaking. There's no way to write everything down at the same time.
The result is that new vocabulary gets lost. The student leaves the class unsure of what they actually learned. The following week, you start from scratch with no clear record of what was covered.
Why new vocabulary disappears after class
Memory is selective. In a 60-minute conversation class, a student can encounter dozens of new terms: phrasal verbs that came up naturally, idioms you explained mid-conversation, technical vocabulary related to the lesson topic. Most of it is gone before the next class.
The teacher can remember some of the standout moments. But the full list, word by word, with how often each term appeared? Nobody can capture that while still running the class.
The problem isn't a lack of attention. It's that teaching and note-taking at the same time compete for the same focus.
How teachers usually handle it today
The most common approach is to jot things down in the Google Meet or Zoom chat, or in a Notion tab, while the class is going on. It works partially: you capture a few terms, especially the ones that needed a longer explanation. But vocabulary that came up naturally in the flow of conversation, without a pause to explain, gets left out.
Other teachers ask the student to take their own notes during class. That creates a different problem: the student stops speaking to write, which breaks the conversational flow at exactly the moment they should be practicing.
Some teachers try to put together a summary after the class, from memory, and send it over WhatsApp. Better than nothing, but it takes time outside of class hours and accuracy depends on how much you actually remembered.
The "vocabulary notebook" solution has been around for decades. The problem isn't the idea, it's the manual effort of keeping everything up to date, class after class, for every student.
What a good system needs to do
To track new vocabulary in a useful way, a system needs to do three things at once.
First, capture what was said in class, not what was typed in a chat. Most new vocabulary comes through speech, not text.
Second, process that vocabulary automatically, without relying on the teacher's memory after the class. The record needs to happen during the lesson, not after it.
Third, present the vocabulary in an accessible way for both the teacher and the student, with enough context for the student to understand exactly when in the class that word came up.
Without all three of those conditions together, vocabulary tracking stays a manual job that gets pushed aside as the teacher's schedule fills up.
How Noladi solves it
When a class ends in Noladi, the system automatically processes the audio and generates a list of new words identified during the lesson, including how many times each term appeared. You don't need to take any notes during class. The record is built in the post-class review, with no manual input.
Both the teacher and the student can see this list on the lesson review screen. The student accesses it after class, in their own panel, under the teacher's brand. Alongside the vocabulary list, they get the full transcription of the class synced with the video, and AI-generated correction suggestions with a pedagogical explanation for each point. The student can click on a word and jump to the exact moment in the class when it was used.
The teacher, in turn, sees speaking stats, including the total number of unique words produced by the student during the lesson. Over time, that data shows whether the student's active vocabulary is growing from one class to the next, with no spreadsheet or manual notes required.
The practical result is simple: you lead the class with full focus on the conversation. New vocabulary is recorded automatically. The student leaves with concrete material to review, instead of relying solely on their memory of what happened during the lesson.
Get to know Noladi
If you want every English class to automatically generate a record of the new vocabulary your student learned, Noladi does that as part of the post-class review included in every plan. Learn more at noladi.app/teacher.
