Dr. Jun Da

jda@mtsu.edu

Dr. Joan McRae

Foreign Languages

Discipline specific equipment

BDA 303A

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1) Rosetta Stone is a suite of interactive language learning software that has been used regularly by students in our lab for more than 3 years. They use it as part of their foreign language course requirement in 6 languages. Our lab currently runs the older stand-alone version of Rosetta Stone purchased using TAF fund. One major drawback of the stand-alone version is that it is very time consuming for faculty to monitor students' use of the software and track their learning records. This proposal asks for fund to upgrade Rosetta Stone to the latest network version that allows better tracking of student use and add Chinese and Hebrew, two new languages taught in our department. We also need to purchase a Dell server which is necessary to host the Rosetta Stone server application and store student data. 2) Both Arabic and Chinese documents are often transmitted as PDFs or images to overcome software issues with right-to-left or top-to-bottom languages. The requested OCR software will allow students to convert these documents and images into searchable and editable text formats so that they can be used in other language learning software applications such as pronunciation adi and interactive writing tutor.