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PASSPORT Let's Talk
The PASSPORT Let’sTalk modules are designed to add an extra dimension to foreign language teaching by allowing interaction between students in a controlled unpressured environment. With PASSPORT the students do not even have to be in the same room.
The Let'sTalk Client module allows students to:
- talk with one or more other students, record the conversation, and replay it afterward
- choose a group, join it (unless the teacher assigns groups or lets the computer select at random) and quit a group
- see who else is in the group he/she has joined
- use the tools of the regular PASSPORT client to listen to, view, or read materials designed to serve as a basis for discussion
The Let'sTalk Monitor module allows a teacher to:
- join a group of students in conversation in order to see how they are doing, participate in the discussion if desired, and help them
- choose the size of groups, so that a group will have 2, 3, or 4 students
let students choose their own groups or assign students to groups—either by putting students in groups oneself or by letting the computer assign them to groups randomly
- pre-assign students to groups to save time (as when giving a test for which students will work in pairs or groups)
- save a set of group assignments and use it again later
- talk to the entire class at the same time, if desired
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