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Review: Rosetta Stone 3 education software

Review  |  www.vnunet.com | Dec 31, 2007

Rosetta Stone claims total immersion in a language, but is that just jumping in at the deep end?

http://www.vnunet.com/computeractive/software/2206288/review-rosetta-stone-education

AEQ 273 Book Reviews

Pushing Boundaries: Language and Culture in a Mexicano Community. Olga Vasquez, Lucinda Pease-Alvarez, and Sheila M. Shannon. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994, 219 pp. HENRY T. TRUEBA U of Houston

http://www.aaanet.org/sections/cae/aeq/br/vasquez.htm

Youth Without Youth | Film | In Theaters | Reviews | Static Multimedia

Francis Coppola’s checkered career includes his triumphant The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, overrated Apocalypse Now (not improved by his extended Redux cut), and thoroughly undistinguished One from the Heart, The Cotton Club, The Outsiders, Rumblefish, Gardens of Stone and Tucker.

http://www.staticmultimedia.com/film/reviews/youth_without_youth

Preview Body

Nintendo has really opened up a whole new audience for "games" of a certain sort, which I will conveniently label as "edutainment". Edutainment is a genre of game that seeks to educate as well as entertain.

http://www.sinjinsolves.com/reviews/nds/myfrench/body.htm

Mariposa Leadership

Author George Lakoff, Berkeley Professor of Cognitive Science/Linguistics, highlights the importance and correlation of ideas and language. He states that ideas really do matter, and that language is the medium that conveys and distributes ideas to others.

http://www.mariposaleadership.com/resources/book_reviews/?info=42

 

AEQ 281 Book Reviews

Negotiating the Maze of School Reform: How Metaphor Shapes Culture in a New Magnet School. Jean Wincek. New York: Teachers College Press, 1995. 139 pp. LEE ANN TRUESDELL Queen's College

http://www.aaanet.org/sections/cae/aeq/br/wincek.htm

AEQ 304 Book Reviews

Building on Strength: Language and Literacy in Latino Families and Communities. Ana Celia Zentella, ed. New York: Teachers College Press, 2005. 213 pp. ISBN 0807746037, $23.95. VERÓNICA E. VALDEZ University of Texas at San Antonio veronica.valdez@utsa.edu

http://www.aaanet.org/sections/cae/aeq/br/AZentella.html

 

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