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--- Forwarded Message from "John Mark Esposito" <[log in to unmask]> --- >From: "John Mark Esposito" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "'Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum'" <[log in to unmask]> >References: <[log in to unmask]> >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Rosetta Stone / Tell me more >Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:23:48 -0400 >Thread-Index: AcgXhSPfqHffBwy2RlO4PmFhYu4LmwAdu7oQ I couldn't agree more with Peggy's take on this, but I wanted to add my two cents. Some of our French professors have gone through the Rosetta Stone curriculum guides in order to create a sort of concordance to go along with the text book that we are using for the first levels of French, Allons-y. I know that it took some work to do, but it seemed to work well with those classes. So, for example, if the students were studying a unit on the family, they would practice the exercises in RS that dealt with the family vocabulary. Again, as Peggy stated, it works best for vocabulary development. As far as Tell Me More is concerned, I believe the speech recognition aspect of the program is bit more sophisticated than RS. However, the best use that I have see for TMM is when it is used for independent learning. The program allows you to create a basic guideline of how many hours you want to study per day, week, etc, and also to concentrate on one particular aspect, such as listening, or to have everything integrated. I have seen many graduate students needing to brush up on their skills or people who have studied languages in the past but wanted a refresher. Good luck! ********************************************** *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************