摘要 |
<p>Language teaching apparatus comprising source material in the form of printed information (10) having written words associated with bar codes which are readable by a light wand (11) used to command a memory device such as a compact disk player (13) by way of an interface (12) to reproduce human voice sounds through headphones (15) corresponding to the words associated with the bar codes on the printed material (10). The bar codes may be provided at different levels in association with the written words and typically comprises: (a) A first set of bar codes with one bar code causing a sentence of the text to be reproduced; (b) a second set of bar codes for causing individual words to be reproduced; (c) a third set of bar codes causing phoneme-related structural prompts to be reproduced; and (d) a fourth set of bar codes to cause an explanatory commentary on the meaning of selected words to be reproduced.</p> |