The Rosetta Stone language learning program has helped millions of people in the U. S. master foreign languages from German and Japanese to Spanish and Swahili.
Advertisements for the program have touted how the government has used the program to orientate emissaries and federal agents assigned overseas.
Now Barbour County Primary School has also employed this renowned language learning tool to help Spanish speaking students learn to master English.
“Many of these students already know a little conversational English,” said Susan Young, the librarian at BCPS. Young teaches students through the Rosetta Stone program at BCPS.
“It’s the academics of English that they have trouble with,” she added.
The Rosetta Stone program helps the students master areas in grammar, spelling and composition.
For example, first grader Yolanda Reyes was working on spelling and identifying sounds. When she logged into her program, the computer asked her to read out several numbers into the headset/microphone device attached to the computer.
Young says this indicated that she would be asked to read or pronounce words later on in her lesson that day.
Other students, such as Jose Gonzales, were not prompted to test their microphone. Instead, Gonzales had to match nouns with the appropriate tense verb as well as match the overall sentence with a picture.
Even if students aren’t required to read aloud in the lesson, Young always encourages students to read their sentences aloud.
Read more on this story in the midweek edition of The Tribune available Tuesday, Jan. 20.
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