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 Re: The school with 30 languages (Re: Elfatih Abuelhia)
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Another 11 languages are spoken by pupils who have some English.
And with figures showing that one in six primary pupils speaks a different language at home - double the number ten years ago - the technology could soon become a permanent feature in many more schools.
Computer Translator
The 'Talking Tutor' can verbally translate English into 25 languages including Polish, Urdu, Pakistani and Chinese. A further 200 languages can be translated on-screen.
Teachers type a message into a computer and the virtual tutor then reads the message out to the pupil in their native tongue. The pupil types a response which is read to the teacher by the tutor.
The software claims to be 95 per cent accurate as it uses ' contextchecking technology' which gives the meaning of the message rather than a verbatim translation.
Headmaster Jason Smith said the software had transformed his school and given staff the opportunity to communicate with children.
'We have a very diverse school - at any one time there are upwards of 30 different languages,' he added.
'We have always found this the biggest barrier to integrating a child into the school.'
The school pays £700 a year for the software, which comes with onteacher-screen 'avatars', or characters, based on the background of the pupils.
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Elfatih Abuelhia
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