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This presents 36 books on eight CD-ROMs. Narrators read the stories, accompanied by background music and sound effects. Color photographs, word and syllable pronunciations in English and Spanish, and interactive picture buttons let students explore and learn. The features can be customized by teachers. The stories are Exploring the Solar System and Beyond, Animals and How They Grow, Our Earth, People Behind the Holidays, Seasons, The Human Body, A World of Plants, and A World of Animals.
Phonics program using video to show mouth movements and teach sounds associated with each letter, making it also useful for pronunciation practice. The program progesses to words and phrases. CD-ROM.
New interface with the most recent version. Four-level listening-based course, each level with two CD-ROMs. Includes speech recognition for answers. Primary focus is on basic language concepts. In each lesson, information is presented in the form of narratives via sound and graphics with text, glossary, speech record, and repetition always available to the student. Follow-up exercises include Questions generated by the student by clicking on icons or words from the lesson; Matrix Game in which the student accrues points for correctly answering questions using vocabulary presented in the lesson; Dictation exercises requiring the student to listen carefully to a series of sentences from the lesson and select words from a list and place them in the gaps in the sentences; Fill-in exercises where missing words are placed in sentences from the lesson. Grammatical and lexical knowledge is reinforced in all games and exercises along with listening comprehension. The program adjusts the level of difficulty of the questions to the student's demonstrated level of proficiency. Suitable to be used as primary course material, supplemental resource, or self-access material in a language lab (index of lessons lends itself well to self-paced instruction). Placement Testing, Mastery Testing and a Records Manager System allow teachers to track an unlimited number of students. Networkable. Pricing options include per-student-use cost. Contact the publisher for details.
Interacts with the browser and word-processor so that pointing to a word brings up a pop-up definition and clicking brings up more information. This CD-ROM includes a customizable user dictionary as well.
CD-ROM version of the classic dictionary for beginners. Also available: English-Spanish and English-Chinese versions.
Multimedia dictionary on CD-ROM; expands on paper version with pronunciation help and video clips.
With this program learners work through words from the University Word List, the 2000 most common words in academic English. They can study the word lists, practice, test themselves, and store words they need to work more on into a special review list for focused practice. Runs on Mac 6.0+.
This program from John McVicker takes any plain text (ASCII) file and uses it for timed and paced readings with an online glossary, nth word and grammatically-focused clozes, sentence and paragraph jumbles, and vocabulary practice such as clozes where all vowels or consonants are deleted or learners see only half the word. Another feature is that the program tracks what the learner did in the 'Notes,' which can be printed out before the learner quits the program. It is very helpful to see the strategies learners use when doing the cloze. The notes also record which words were looked up during the reading, the definition from the glossary, and whatever the learner typed to help him or her remember the word. The readings that come with NewReader are relatively advanced. Because it is easy to add text to this program--anything you have done in your word-processor and saved as plain text can be dropped in the NewReader folder for immediate use--it can be for any level. For the money, it's tough to beat, and the program is regularly updated.
A number of separate titles with Nikolai as the central character. Titles include Nikolai's Treats and Nikolai in Outer Space for ages 6+, and Nicolai's Pirates, Toys, Nights, Pharoahs, and Mysteries for ages 4+.
An interactive adventure with earth science content and a lot of information about how trains work. Designed for native speakers. CD-ROM.
CD-ROM based multimedia pronunciation program. 22 lessons, covering vowels, consonants, intonation. Lessons include workplace vocabulary and common mistakes and misconceptions.
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