There had been an increase in the number of immigrant children in the US that are learning English as their second language for the first time. This has caused school grades K-12 to change the way they teach these immigrants, that opens up a whole new market for tools and technologies that help teach English as a second language. A program called ELLIS teaches English by associating words through the everyday objects that are usually seen, instead of definitions in their first language. These technologies also are accessable on BlackBerrys and PDAs that some of these people might have. Also ICQ and other messaging porgrams have a corrective english program so it also helps the immigrants throught chatting in chat rooms as well.
I think that this is a great step foreward for people to learn a new language in anyway that is accessable to them.
So what do you think about this?
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
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I think it is great that people are leaning second languages and that we have programs to help them. People need to know more than one language in case they travel. We should not expect everyone to know english. If you are going to travel then learn the language.
ReplyDeleteThis program is great. We could use it not only to teach english but other language's like German or Spanish. It seems that this program could be really cool.
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