the book discussion

[Susan Penfield]

Thanks Bill -- excellent point!  Technology presents lots of options -- As
always, the preparation of materials
has to be done with the overall goals and abilities of the learners in mind.

Best,
Susan



On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:34 PM, William J Poser <wjposer at ldc.upenn.edu>wrote:

> One point to consider in deciding whether to subtitle is that nowadays,
> with the ease of computer publication, you can do both. You might, for
> example,
> produce some monolingual copies for use in an immersion school and some
> copies with subtitles for use by parents who don't know the language and
> possibly for sale outside the community if you consider that appropriate
> and
> want to try to generate some revenue that way.
>
> Also, if you create on-line versions, you can initially present each page
> monolingually but make it possible to request information in English,
> e.g. the meaning of individual words or the translation of a sentence.
>
> Bill
>



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University of Arizona,
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