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All language will be tied to a concordance to strengthen vocabulary at any point on the semantic web. Each activity will activate and develop the four language areas (listening, writing, speaking, reading). Activities may include web searches, listening to songs, karaoke to those songs, and other related activities that will review material or introduce new concepts (such as content-domain vocabulary).
A computer-domain vocabulary will be the basis for grammar study, but each word will introduce new words that belong to specific content domains. These content domains (business, travel, history, culture, pleasure) will include realworld activities that develop language skills and build upon an associative framework.
All actions will be tagged to an underlying curriculum.
Each word or image will be linked to instructional material in the form of a call-out box. Each call-out box, depending on the material, will include a menu of options. A menu may lead to more instructional content or an activity.
Follow-up activities will reinforce new material.
An example of a common instructional prompt will be the vocabulary building tool. The vocabulary building tool will open up a unique window that allows the user to see the definition in their own language, hear the word, practice saying it with a recording function, and then listen to his or her voice and compare it to the original pronunciation. Every instance of new vocabulary will be introduced into a word bank for future practice. It will also be “memorized” by the program for future activities and follow-up prompts. Periodically, random quizzes will appear before the user can continue. After a fixed number of appearances, the vocabulary word will be removed.