Welcome to The Language Market, a sequential, self-paced language program designed to make teaching and learning a language fun and easy.

Two stages and six languages are available.

How is The Language Market different from other software?

• It has 16 sequenced units with over 200 interactive activities and exercises
• It is self-contained and completely immersive
• It covers a whole year of classroom structured learning
• It was designed by language teachers and uses native language speakers
• It focuses on form, incorporating explanations, relevant examples and reinforcement activities and exercises
• It observes, within a unit, the methodological principles of orientating, enhancing,
• synthesizing and extending
• It observes the principles of reinforcement and progression within the program to insure mastery of concepts
• It can be used progressively where learners follow sequenced language activities that cannot be accessed out of order, except in revision
• It emphasizes learning of Chinese characters, with the use of phonetic support as a guide to pronunciation. (pinyin for Chinese and romaji for Japanese
• Each stage of the EDUSS Language Market allows the teacher to be the facilitator not the language expert

The program can be used in the classroom as follows:

• As a self-contained program in a distant mode learning situation
• Individualized learning
• Small groups in multi-level classes
• Classes with multiple entry, skill levels
• Reinforcement for all learners in the classroom and at home
• A motivation booster for highly computer literate learners
• A motivation booster for students who are slower on computers
• Self pacing is particularly good for special needs

The program caters to the skills of reading, writing and listening: (Example Chinese)

To cater to the reading skill, the program:

• uses simplified Chinese characters on screen, while the audio texts also provide hidden pinyin transcriptions;
• provides reinforcement activities for character recognition by incorporating the characters to make words and sentences
• fosters and improves reang comprehension of character texts including letters and postcard

To cater to the writing skill, the program:

• introduces 100 new characters with the correct stroke order
• gives examples of how to use these characters in phrases and sentences
• provides a wide variety of reinforcement activities and exercises incorporating the characters to make words and sentences
• reinforces awareness of sentence structure in Chinese

To cater to the listening skill, the program:

• exposes the user to native speakers from northern China, France, Japan, Germany, Italy and Indonesian.
• provides examples of the pronunciation of words and sentences in character texts
• provides listening activities and exercises that reinforce vocabulary and language forms in the units
• fosters and improves listening comprehension of Chinese spoken at natural speed
• encourages the user to self-direct his/her learning
• encourages uninhibited language learning
• provides opportunities for problem solving and intelligent guessing
• uses a scoring system for each activity to motivate learning and improvement
• incorporates general knowledge
• introduces culturally specific information through postcards, language activities, graphics, calligraphy exercises and grammar tips
• motivates the user to communicate
• provides practice for the user, to learn from his/her mistakes
• has four revision units (Units 4, 8, 13 and 16)
• introduces all functions and vocabulary in a meaningful context through the activities
• revises and consolidates all functions encountered in each unit