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**How do we use technology to promote language development?**

 * Computers have language bars installed for students to easily change language scripts.
 * Online databases have translation features (i.e., EBSCO, Gale)
 * Newsbank provides Spanish articles for language study and pleasure.

Access to computers, E-mail, the LAN, and the Internet entails responsibility. The school requires all users to obey all laws in effect within the country of China and to follow the school’s behavioural expectations when using computer facilities.

**What are the implications of the language policy for the library?**
__Cathy's:__
 * Regulations regarding academic honesty (whole school);
 * Instruction with language teachers on translations
 * Responsibility with teachers to scaffold research skills N-12;
 * Responsibility with teachers to educate students about plagiarism N-12;
 * Development of mother tongue and other language resources

**What are the implications of the language policy for the budget?**
Implications are various. Some considerations--

**Purchase of language software**
like Rosetta StoneRecommended from //CIS Shortcuts// Vol. No.6 http://www.rosettastone.com/en/ Rosetta Stone is a distance-learning language program that is now being used in many schools as an addition to classroom teaching. It is most useful where students want/need to learn a language that is not offered in the curriculum. With thirty languages available, including US or UK English, the program is available on CD-ROM or online.The program is used in many contexts -- round the world indigenous communities are working with Rosetta Stone to preserve and revitalize their languages. The learning process is through the Dynamic Immersion (TM) method and an online demo allows users to try it out. There is a UK version of the site -- the software has been mapped to both Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 for the UK Modern Foreign Languages curriculum and also the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. http://www.therosettastone.co.uk/en/education/primary-and-secondary

**Translation of school website**
which could mean hiring another position.