16.831, Media: NYT: Language Anxiety? Try Immersion Therapy

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Subject: 16.831, Media: NYT: Language Anxiety? Try Immersion Therapy

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Date: 18-Mar-2005
From: Karen Chung < karchung at ntu.edu.tw >
Subject: NYT: Language Anxiety? Try Immersion Therapy

	
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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:44:19
From: Karen Chung < karchung at ntu.edu.tw >
Subject: NYT: Language Anxiety? Try Immersion Therapy


The New York Times, March 17, 2005:

Language Anxiety? Try Immersion Therapy
by Thomas J. Fitzgerald

        Technology has not yet produced an effortless way to learn another
language, but it can lend a helping hand. ...

        A program called Rosetta Stone (www.rosettastone.com), from
Fairfield Language Technologies, based in Harrisonburg, Va., offers study
software that uses an immersion technique. The program strives to replicate
the way children learn their native language; all of the instruction is in
the foreign language, and nothing written or spoken is translated to
English.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/17/technology/circuits/17basi.html?8cir&emc=cir

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        Karen Chung
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Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition





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