VOCABULARY LEARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20130189654A1
• Filed: 01/16/2013
• Published: 07/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Adjelia Learning, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adjelia Learning, Inc.
• Inventors: Symmes, Chandler W., Wallingford, Phil
• Application Number:
  US13/742,448
• Publication Number:
  US 20130189654A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/169
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 17/006 with audible presentation of the material to be studied audio and audio-visual teaching apparatus in general G09B5/04, G09B5/06
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/06 with both visual and audible presentation of the material to be studied

Abstract

A computerized system and method of teaching vocabulary to a student includes an application that provides predetermined word lists. A teacher or instructor may also add words to the word database based on a user'"'"'s curriculum, cross-curriculum or words of interest. The words in the word database are utilized to automatically create an individualized vocabulary assignment. The user is instructed to learn the new vocabulary words by breaking the words into their suffixes, prefixes, roots and word origin and history. The student is encouraged to create a word history or etymology of the word to understand the history, the language of origin, and the language from which the word is borrowed. The student is then instructed to use the vocabulary word(s) in a sentence. The teacher, instructor or an online tutor monitors the completion of the various assignments by the student and also monitors how well the assignments are performed.

Claims

1. A method for providing an individualized vocabulary assignment containing words to be taught to a user using an automated computer program, the method comprising:

receiving, by a user on a computerized device and from a vocabulary computer software program operating on an electronic system, one or more vocabulary words to be studied by the user;

responsive to said received one or more vocabulary words, automatically creating at least one computerized individualized teaching assignment, accessed by said user utilizing a user computer system, said computerized individualized teaching assignment including requiring said user to deconstruct said one or more vocabulary words into one or more of the following;

prefixes, suffixes, roots, word origin and history;

instructing said user to use the one or more vocabulary words in a sentence; and

monitoring said user performance on said at least one computerized individualized teaching assignment and said user use of the one or more vocabulary words in a sentence by a teacher, instructor or an online tutor, said monitoring for determining one or more of the completion of the various assignments by the student and how well the assignments are performed.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said one or more vocabulary words are authentic vocabulary words used by said user during normal day-to-day writing.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein said authentic vocabulary words include actual words used and/or misspelled words generated by said user during normal day-to-day writing.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said electronic system on which said vocabulary computer software program operates is a web server and is user hardware agnostic.