For me, I chose to do this topic because it is all about learning a brand new language through the inclusion of technology,whether that be through a smartphone, ipad, Mac, computer, etc.
Rosetta Stone Language Learning is a computer-assisted language learning (CALL) software published by the Rosetta Stone. The software uses images, text, sound, and video to teach words and grammar by using repetition.
This program offers over 30 languages, including Spanish (Latin America/ Spain), English (British/English), Arabic, Latin, Korean, Japanese, German, Greek, Polish, Russian and Swahili.
1. Who has heard of the Rosetta stone?
2. Has anyone ever used the Rosetta stone?
The students pair sound or text to one of the images. The sound or text is from a native speaker of that specific language.
There are matching exercises and writing exercises.
Also, if the student has a microphone, the program can judge their pronunciation.
The aim is to help whoever wants to learn the language
On the website, it says Rosetta stone for you, classrooms and enterprise so it has already been brought to the attention of the public school system. They have an option for k-12 and higher education.
Each lesson concludes with a review of the content in that lesson, and each unit concludes with a milestone, which is a simulated conversation that includes the content of the unit.
CD-Rom, Download, Subscription
Rosetta Stone’s Discover Languages is an app currently only available on Xbox One. It is very different from the traditional design, involving a virtual world and more of a focus on games in order to appeal more strongly to game playing audiences. The only language currently supported are English and Spanish.
3. What do you think is the most popular language studied through the rosetta stone?
Top 6 languages: spanish, french, english, italian, german, japanese
4. Do you think using this software program could be beneficial to use in school systems to teach languages?
5. Why do you think this language program will be beneficial/detrimental to use?
Quotes:
Abby and Mark (Spanish)
“Repetitive”
”Fell asleep” in middle school
“Learned the basics from the website”
“I learned more Spanish from talking to people”
"It was really helpful, by giving pictures and situations that pertained to the culture you were learning the language of" - Alex
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