VOA慢速英語: 塞內(nèi)加爾使用科技教授閱讀

Senegal Uses Technology to Teach Reading

塞內(nèi)加爾使用科技教授閱讀

More and more Africans are using text messages, e-mail and social media to communicate. In Senegal, educators are using new technologies to teach women to read. The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, launched the program in Senegal two years ago. But UNESCO officials are now expanding it to as many as six other African countries.

越來越多的人使用短信、電子郵件和社交媒體來交流。在塞內(nèi)加爾，教育者運用新科技來教授女人閱讀。聯(lián)合國教育、科學和文化組織兩年前在塞內(nèi)加爾啟動這項計劃。但是聯(lián)合國教科文組織的官員把這項計劃擴展到非洲其他六個國家。

Mariama Daffe sits in front of a television at her home in a community near Senegal’s capital Dakar. She is learning to write and work with numbers. Ms.Daffe started this home-study program a year ago. She was 39 years old at the time.

瑪利亞瑪·達夫坐在電視機前，她家在塞內(nèi)加爾首都達喀爾附近的一個社區(qū)。她正在學習書寫、使用數(shù)字。達夫一年前開始這個在家學習的項目計劃。那時她39歲。

The Ministry of Education joined with UNESCO to create these training modules for literacy -- reading and writing. The program appears daily on state television. Women taking part say these lessons have made them more independent.

教育部加入到聯(lián)合國教科文組織的項目計劃中，來為掃盲工作——讀、寫進行培訓。這個項目計劃每天在國家電視臺播出。參與培訓的女士說這些課程使得她們更獨立了。

Mariama Daffe says, “These days I have my mobile telephone, and I can read messages and I can send messages, too.”

瑪利亞瑪·達夫說：“這些天我用手機，可以閱讀信息，也能發(fā)信息了。”

Ms. Daffe finishes her lesson and starts preparing dinner for her husband and three children. She says the TV programs are convenient. She studies three modules a week, yet she has a full-time job and travels two hours by bus every day.

達夫結(jié)束她的課程后，然后開始為她的丈夫和三個孩子準備晚餐。她說電視節(jié)目很方便。她一周學習三個模塊，因為她有全職工作，每天還得乘坐兩個小時的汽車。

At-home study programs are easy to operate and not costly. That makes them especially useful for a place like Senegal, which has limited money to teach literacy.

在家學習的計劃很容易操作，價錢也不貴。這對她們很有用，特別是在像塞內(nèi)加爾的地方，受資金限制，沒辦法學習認字。

But some women prefer the classroom experience.

但是有些女士更喜歡在教室學習的體驗。

Ten minutes down the road from Mariama Daffe’s home, women write on a chalk board at the local elementary school. Thirty-nine-year-old Astou Keita says it is never too late to learn.

離瑪利亞瑪·達夫的家只有十分鐘的路程，女人們在當?shù)氐男W黑板上書寫。39歲的阿斯托·凱塔說學習永遠都不晚。

She says, “My kids laugh at me. They think it is funny that I started learning at this age.”

她說：“我的孩子還嘲笑我，我在這個年紀開始學習是件很有趣的事。”

Mamadou Diallo is a teacher. He uses a laptop computer and a projector to prepare an interactive display wall. The students use the wall while a class in mathematics is taught.

馬馬杜·狄亞樂是個老師。他使用手提電腦和投影儀準備相互作用式顯示墻，學生使用顯示墻，這樣一節(jié)數(shù)學課就教完了。

Mr. Diallo says the first time the women saw the interactive display wall, they became very interested. They could not wait to try it. He told them, “First, we need to work on the chalkboard before we can start the math.”

狄亞樂說女人第一次看到相互作用式顯示屏時，她們就感興趣，迫不及待的想要試一試。他告訴她們：“首先，開始上數(shù)學課之前，我們需要在黑板上先操作一遍。”

He asks a student to read a word problem and do the work with numbers.

他讓一個學生讀一個字符的求解問題，然后用數(shù)字來練習。

She then answers the mathematical problem on the wall.

然后她在顯示墻上回答數(shù)學問題。

I’m Jerri Watson.

我是杰瑞·瓦特森。