Butgereit, LLBotha, Adèle2009-05-262009-05-262009-05Butgereit, LL and Botha, A. 2009. Hadeda: the noisy way to practice spelling vocabulary using a cell phone. IST-Africa 2009 Conference and Exhibition. Kampala, Uganda, 6 - 8 May 2009, pp 7978-1-905824-11-3www.IST-Africa.org/Conference2009http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3392IST-Africa 2009 Conference ProceedingsWith the push to better school results in mathematics, science, and technology related subjects, often language education is moved into the background. In Africa, however, education is often not in the mother tongue of the learners. Pupils are in a position where they are trying to learn complicated subjects such as science and mathematics in a language which is not their home language. In some African countries, there are dozens if not hundreds of languages. Hadeda is a project where primary school pupils (and even secondary school pupils) are encouraged to practice spelling words or vocabulary words using their cell phone. Hadeda allows the language teacher to create spelling lists or vocabulary lists in English and Afrikaans. Hadeda then generates a fun cell phone application using multiple texts-to- speech engines to encourage pupils to practice spelling the wordsenHadedaMobile phonesHuman language technologiesSpelling vocabularyText-to- speech enginesIST-Africa 2009 Conference ProceedingsConference PresentationButgereit, L., & Botha, A. (2009). Hadeda: the noisy way to practice spelling vocabulary using a cell phone. IST-Africa 2009 Conference Proceedings. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3392Butgereit, LL, and Adèle Botha. "Hadeda: the noisy way to practice spelling vocabulary using a cell phone." (2009): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3392Butgereit L, Botha A, Hadeda: the noisy way to practice spelling vocabulary using a cell phone; IST-Africa 2009 Conference Proceedings; 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3392 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Butgereit, LL AU - Botha, Adèle AB - With the push to better school results in mathematics, science, and technology related subjects, often language education is moved into the background. In Africa, however, education is often not in the mother tongue of the learners. Pupils are in a position where they are trying to learn complicated subjects such as science and mathematics in a language which is not their home language. In some African countries, there are dozens if not hundreds of languages. Hadeda is a project where primary school pupils (and even secondary school pupils) are encouraged to practice spelling words or vocabulary words using their cell phone. Hadeda allows the language teacher to create spelling lists or vocabulary lists in English and Afrikaans. Hadeda then generates a fun cell phone application using multiple texts-to- speech engines to encourage pupils to practice spelling the words DA - 2009-05 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Hadeda KW - Mobile phones KW - Human language technologies KW - Spelling vocabulary KW - Text-to- speech engines KW - IST-Africa 2009 Conference Proceedings LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2009 SM - 978-1-905824-11-3 T1 - Hadeda: the noisy way to practice spelling vocabulary using a cell phone TI - Hadeda: the noisy way to practice spelling vocabulary using a cell phone UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3392 ER -