Learning Communities
- smart study lists can be shared with a community of learners
- shared knowledge, preferences, study habits can be collaboratively filtered to discover “comprehensible peers” (Chapin, 2003) who can share “comprehensible input +1” (Krashen, 1989).
iTunes || Crescendo
Crescendo (AKA StudyDB) is a knowlegebase management system we have developed for the core vocabularies of Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Arabic. Crescendo will import iTunes libaries and generate quizzes based on smart study lists
Works Cited
Chapin, Alex. “Memory in the Information Age: New Tools for Second
Language Acquisition.” ADFL Bulletin, Winter
2003.
Krashen, S. We acquire vocabulary and spelling by reading: Additional evidence for the input hypothesis. The Modern Language Journal, 73, (1989): 440-464.