Intro to Kurzweil 3000 for ESL uses. Teaches at culinary institute--many 2nd language students taking 3 classes with avg 1400 pages in the text!
Can speed up/down reading of passage.
Read aloud tool. Built in dictionary. Extract tool will pull out highlighted text--i.e. pull out vocab terms. For ESL use it to create cognitive tool.
Use it as a tutor who 'whispers in the learners' ear' --eg introduce a chapter with more language than the book provides.
Notes, multiple choice, highlighting, dictionaries, test questions,
Small group work: how would we use this software?
Available as Flashdrive application for portability.
Similar product recommendation is TextAloud $20, NeoSpeech [nextuptech.com]
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Friday, April 3, 2009
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