These general uses as well as more subtle functions and meanings can be transmitted to students through this type of repeated exposure to authentic, contextualized language. The interaction with a variety of authentic patterns helps students gain familiarity with the contexts of common lexical items and grammatical patterns. WILT also offers teachers an easy way to quickly and powerfully review individual student performance and provide individual help where necessary. It also allows a teacher to see what types of things an entire class of students are having problems with. WILT is also flexible in many other ways.
Students can use the system for general practice, as well as specific assignments.
An assignments can either be identical for all students, or each student can have a different set of questions focusing on the same topics. These exercises can be configured to provide a vary degree of help during the exercise, so that they can be used for exercises of differing degrees of difficulty or as free practice. An exercise may be focused on one particular pattern or may require the student to work with several patterns at the same time. Every word in each exercise may be linked to a French-English dictionary, and links to a variety of other supplemental information related to the task can be enabled, as well. Such attention to the individual needs and learning styles of students is, of course, much more difficult to incorporate into traditional classroom settings.