VIETNAMESE (Rosetta Stone)

VIETNAMESE

Linguistics 19 Syllabus

PURPOSE: To develop basic listening and speaking skills.

MATERIAL ASSIGNED:

The Rosetta Stone Language Library: User’s Guide. Fairfield Language Technologies.

LL Call No.: PB/1/R73

The Rosetta Stone Language Library: Vietnamese I. CD-ROM course by Fairfield Language

Technologies. LL Code No.: VIE.08 (2 CD-ROM's).

MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF CREDIT AVAILABLE: 4 units

METHOD OF STUDY:

Familiarize yourself with the operation of the course by reading the User's Guide, pages 13-38.

For each lesson, go through both the recognition/pronunciation steps and the learning to speak steps.

Recognition/Pronunciation:

Begin with Skill B exercise 1. Proceed through the entire lesson once, repeating back aloud the

foreign word, phrase or sentence before matching it to the correct picture.

2. Repeat Skill B exercise 1 until you are able to match each phrase to a picture with perfect accuracy.

Don't forget to repeat after the speaker.

Learning to Speak:

Go to Skill D preview exercise where you will see the picture without sound. Turn off the text by

clicking the text icon to the right of the pictures. Look at each picture and produce the word, phrase

or sentence that goes with that picture as you learned it Skill B. Check your pronunciation by pressing

the speaker icon on that picture.

Repeat Skill D preview exercise until you can produce the words that go with each picture with

perfect accuracy. When you are satisfied that you have mastered each phrase, go to the next lesson.

EXAMINATION:

During the examination, you will be shown picture sheets with pictures taken from anywhere in the lessons you are

responsible for knowing. The Supervisor will choose pictures at random from the sheets, and you will be asked to

produce the foreign words that go with that picture. You will also have a rough English translation of the foreign

phrase as a prompt. Scoring: You will be given a score of from 1 (poorest) to 5 (best) in each of 4 areas: recall

time before speaking, pronunciation/fluidity, grammar, vocabulary. Your overall score will be a weighted average

of those scores with the highest weight given to recall time, second highest to pronunciation/fluidity, third highest

to grammar and fourth highest to vocabulary. Your grade will be based on this overall score.

ASSIGNMENT:

Rosetta Stone Vietnamese (RSV) CD-ROM course
Block 1: RSV Units 1 & 2	Block 3: RSV Units 5 & 6
Block 2: RSV Units 3 & 4	Block 4: RSV Units 7 & 8