On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:54 PM, K. K. Subramaniam <subb...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Monday 14 December 2009 09:00:23 pm Aleksey Lim wrote: > > > Hello everybody, > > > > > > This afternoon, I had an interesting conversation with a Montessori > > > teacher, about Speak. She asked me why Speak says "a" when "a" is > pressed > > > and not the sound of the letter "a". Montessori teachers teach the > shape > > > and sound of letters first, and then the name of the alphabet. I did > not > > > have an answer for her, but I wondered if it would be possible to have > an > > > option in Speak to do so. > > > > not sure it could be done in existed Speak(it just passes string to > > speak engine). But it could separate activity or mode in Speak which > > teaches alphabet. > Isn't Speak an overkill for such basic lessons? > > Montessori teachers would find Scratch or EToys useful for such exercises. > They > can prepare a list of words and record their associated 'a' sounds. Script > word objects to respond with the appropriate sound when letter 'a' is > dropped > on them (or the 'a' key is pressed with the mouse hovering over a word) . > This > puts more control on the quality of pronunciation in the hands of teachers. > > Subbu > The concern was more along the lines of "It will confuse our students because we teach them phonetically" as opposed to anything else. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Center for Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu/
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