Title of Software: Spanish Steps
Producer: British Broadcasting Corporation © 2002-2005. Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London,W1A 1AA
Target students (e.g., age or grade-level of students): This practical digital learning resource is adaptable for grade levels from 3rd to adults learners.
Proficiency level (e.g., beginning, intermediate, advanced): It is designed to suit all these categories. The user can have no knowledge or little about the language, and because is designed in steps the learner can progress their own learning.
Description:This program, Spanish Steps in a self-contained online learning where the user can learn about grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, learning log, etc in their own pace. It has video based (conversations with different scenarios; available in Eng. and Span.) with activities that has a challenge at the end of each of them and with grammar tips. It has 24 units that are divided into 6 categories.
It is a digital learning object with repurpose (it means you can use this in a new way or context), reusable (people can used for a different purpose), adoptable (use this information at school, home, etc. without changing it), adaptable (modify the digital learning resource for reuse, and it support material for students that already know), and it is interoperate (user can plug and play to exchange data of information having no knowledge or little).
This learning resource it is very easy friendly. It has additional links that provide extra information. Also click and drag, match the meaning, sounds of Spanish words, missing the letter are some of the activities that evaluate the learning of the conversations.
Language skills targeted: Spanish
Evaluation:
For this program at didn’t find any weakness. The bbc page offers mini tutorials in 35 languages. It will be effective for students and adults to learn and practice a different language. I definitely use it in my classroom because it has different scenarios where the students can interact while learning and work in their own pace.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/lj/
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Great find Marysol! This free on-line program from the BBC is better than some of the ones I've seen for sale. And they have several other languages too! Nice job on your review. Are you concerned at all though that this is Castillian Spanish (Spain). How does that compare to the Spanish you speak, or the Spanish that may be spoken by your students here in Texas?
-Dr. Wright
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