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SKILLS CENTER - All-Students Lab: SOFTWARE & AUDIO RESOURCES
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AUDIO PROGRAMS
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MEDIA MASTER Via this interactive media player students can listen to foreign language audio tapes, thereby strengthening language training and other skills requiring audio. Offers many capabilities not available with traditional tapes and tape players such as slow speech selection and book marking to access any point in the program with one click.

Real Player:
Portuguese

Brasil! Lingua e Cultura

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Via this audio player, students can listen to Brazilian Portuguese language files that introduce and strengthen Portuguese language training and other skills requiring audio.
SOFTWARE
French: Contacts. 6th ed Interactive program provides beginning French students with practice in vocabulary, grammatical structures and reading comprehension. Uses three types of exercise sets: Fill-in-the-Blank, Multiple-Choice, and Cue-and-Response.
French: Vis-à-vis Interactive program provides students of French lessons in vocabulary development, listening and speaking practice, grammar structure exercises and French reading comprehension practice.
French: Vis-à-Vise-lab Internet based lab component accompanies textbook.

German: Deutsch Na Klar.

3rd ed, 4th ed.
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Interactive program offers beginning speakers of German a thorough introduction to the German language and culture. Offers vocabulary and grammar drills, and reading and writing exercises.
German: Kaleidoskop German tutor program companion to textbook. Tutor provides practice and reinforcement exercises including a glossary of terms. Vocabulary, grammar and structure are emphasized.
Italian: In Giro per l’ItaliaItalian: In Giro per l’Italia Interactive, multimedia language program for beginning Italian speakers offers a study of the Italian language and culture. Includes a “talking dictionary”.

Japanese: Yookoso!

An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese
Interactive multimedia program for beginning Japanese speakers.
Spanish: Mosaicos Internet based lab component accompanies textbook.
Spanish: Dos Mundos. 5th ed. Interactive multimedia program for beginning Spanish speakers introduces students to the language and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. Based on the textbook’s content introduces vocabulary, grammar and chapter video segments.
Spanish 101: PowerPoint Presentation by Rosa Arceo
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Displays Spanish vocabulary words and phrases with corresponding pictures
GRAMMAR
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AllWrite Explains the effect of alcohol use on decision-making abilities. A virtual campus provides the setting for scenarios addressing the problems of an at risk population.
Blue Pencil II Grammar, usage and mechanics improvement program. Student corrects passages. “Hint” key helps user over hard spots.
Practical English Diagnostic Evaluates knowledge of English grammar fundamentals. Identifies weaknesses users may have. Printout of results useful for prescribing next steps. Ask Skills Center staff for the "Improving Your Writing Skills handout listing S.C. resources for each problem area."
Tutortapes ESL program that clearly and simply provides instruction on topics such as “count and non-count nouns” and “prepositions.” Excellent lesson on irregular verbs.

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