Lisa, A couple of recently developed apps at schoolshape.com/home might be of interest. Speaking The speaking app at https://schoolshape.com/home (log in and click ‘Speak’). Students can add multiple tutors/teachers/mentors/penfriends, talk to them and record their conversations. Writing The writing app at https://schoolshape.com/home (log in and click ‘Write’) supports most languages and helps students improve their writing accuracy via a hint system, guiding them towards the correct answer. Grammar corrections and annotations help the student with a combination of multilingual grammar software and teacher/mentor/penfriend input. A running total of percentage accuracy is displayed, and on iPads, Android tablets and Smartphones, the most common foreign accents are available directly from the screen keyboard. This encourages students to write more and improve their accuracy, thus increasing their percentage accuracy over time. Students can thus do regular writing on their devices, improve accuracy through inductive learning, and collaborate securely with native speakers. Merry Christmas! Peter Peter Smith Director, Schoolshape schoolshape.com <http://www.schoolshape.com> On 19 December 2017 at 20:07, Todd Nichols <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Lisa, > > TalkAbroad <http://talkabroad.com> may be a good fit for your team. We > cover Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, > French. We don't provide fill in the blank exercises like traditional > software, but rather offer actual interactions with native speakers that > you can work into your curriculum. We work with over 500 universities. > > Feel free to take a look at our resources page > <http://resources.talkabroad.com> for examples of curriculum that > integrates TalkAbroad. Obviously Spanish/French dominate the examples there > b/c those have larger class numbers. But our less commonly taught languages > programs are very strong as well. > > Todd > [log in to unmask] > > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Katzenstein, Lisa <[log in to unmask] > > wrote: > >> Hi Everybody: >> >> >> >> I am a Tutor Coordinator in ESOL who also works with world language >> students in the language lab at Richland College. I have been asked to >> find language learning programssuch as Mango, Pronunciator, and Rosetta >> Stone (all of which we already have used) that could be used when a foreign >> language textbook does NOT have an online component. This happens the most >> often with the lesser taught languages like Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and >> Italian. If you have any suggestions plus vendor contact info, I would be >> most grateful. Many thanks ahead for your response. >> >> >> >> Best, >> >> >> >> Lisa Katzenstein >> >> Tutor Coordinator >> >> ESOL Corner >> >> World Languages, Cultures, and Communications >> >> Richland College >> >> >> > > > > -- > > Todd Nichols > University Partnerships, TalkAbroad > www.talkabroad.com > PO Box 5392, > Englewood, CO 80155 > o: 415-692-5311 > c: 720-937-6486 > e: [log in to unmask] > > - - - - - - - > "The TalkAbroad program is a great idea for all language classes. The > student we talked to was extremely down-to-earth and actually helped us > significantly...I was impressed with the organization of the program as > well as the maturity and helpfulness of the students. I would recommend it > in the future to all your language courses." > "I was surprised how easy answering some of the questions was because I > did not realize how much Spanish I have actually learned through the > Spanish class that I have had. The person who I had a conversation with did > a great job helping to explain something to me if I did not fully > understand a question by using Spanish words that I did know. I really > enjoyed the conversation and I believe that it helped me learn." > - Student Testimonials >