New tool ahead for language learning

[Francis Hult]

Waikato Times

 

New tool ahead for language learning

 

Learning a new language could soon be as easy as picking up a newspaper. 

 

Waikato University PhD student Michael Walmsley is working on a project which will help language learners build their foreign vocabulary by reading texts online where some of the words have been replaced with words in their target language.

 

His idea, still in its infancy, has seen him awarded a $98,000 government-funded Top Achiever's Doctoral Scholarship.

 

The software engineering student will spend the next three years researching ways to tap into existing online resources, such as Wikipedia and the Wiktionary, to create suitable reading texts for language learners.

 

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/2893404/New-tool-ahead-for-language-learning

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