Carmen McCotter is a Rosetta Stone Professional Learning Specialist with experience as the director of an international English language school, Spanish professor, and ESL teacher.

You’re already familiar with IXL’s all-in-one teaching and learning platform. But did you know that Rosetta Stone, a part of the IXL Learning family, offers a comprehensive world language program for schools?

Rosetta Stone for Schools provides a complete curriculum to accelerate language learning for 25 world languages. Using Rosetta Stone’s intuitive approach to language acquisition and retention, students build confidence in all four domains of language and discover new cultures. All on one safe and supportive online program.

Let’s dive into how Rosetta Stone can support your world language program!

• Provides a comprehensive curriculum
• Creates an immersive environment
• Builds confidence speaking a new language
• Teaches students about culture through Rosetta Stone Stories
• Supports instruction with classroom aids
• Offers unlimited learning on a single platform

Provides a comprehensive curriculum

Rosetta Stone has been a leader in language learning for over 30 years, helping people of all ages build fluency and confidence in new languages. When creating Rosetta Stone for Schools, education experts crafted a comprehensive curriculum that engages students in all four domains of language for 25 world languages.

By working through engaging reading, writing, listening, and speaking activities, students build their  knowledge of pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. This varied practice supports students as they develop proficiency in their target language. Each lesson is scaffolded to build on the previous ones so that students are always ready for what comes next.

Creates an immersive environment

One of the best ways to learn a new language is through immersing yourself completely in your target language, but outside of study abroad it’s difficult to implement immersion in the classroom. Rosetta Stone’s program uses a structured immersion method, surrounding students in their target language from their first lesson.

Rosetta Stone’s immersive method mirrors the way our brains first acquire language, enabling students to learn intuitively by connecting their new language to real-world images and audio from native speakers. As a result, students build up language knowledge through context and reasoning, rather than memorization. With this method, students gain a deeper, more lasting understanding of their target language.

Builds confidence speaking a new language

Speaking out loud, mistakes and all, is a necessary part of mastering a new language. However, it can be intimidating for students to speak up in a language they’re new to, especially in front of their peers. With Rosetta Stone, you can provide students with a safe space to practice speaking their target language, with the added benefit of real-time feedback and support.

Learners using Rosetta Stone spend the majority of their time in the program speaking aloud. Rosetta Stone’s innovative TruAccent speech recognition engine provides learners with immediate feedback on pronunciation and fluency by comparing their speech to the speech of millions of native speakers. Learners receive positive feedback when their pronunciation aligns with that of a native speaker, and a prompt to try again when it’s not quite right. Plus, TruAccent is one of the only speech engines trained specifically for children’s voices, providing more responsive support to students of all grade levels.

This targeted practice in a safe environment helps students build up the confidence they need to feel comfortable speaking up! They’ll be ready to participate in class or strike up a conversation wherever their new language takes them.

Teaches students about culture through Rosetta Stone Stories

Learning a language is much more than just learning the words; it’s also an opportunity to learn about different people, places, and customs. Alongside the lessons and activities in the main curriculum, Rosetta Stone for Schools also offers engaging Stories to introduce students to the cultures surrounding their target language while they develop their language skills.

Each Story is aligned to the grammar and vocabulary from each unit in the curriculum, providing students with text at just the right level of difficulty for them. In Stories, students can interact with the passage by either reading to themselves, listening to a native speaker read aloud, or recording themselves reading the passage aloud.

Rosetta Stone Stories cover a variety of fictional and real-life topics, including short poems, fictional stories, and engaging descriptions of historical figures or famous places to give learners a well-rounded understanding of different cultures. Stories are a great way to support cultural learning about the different places where the target language is spoken.

Supports instruction with classroom aids

Rosetta Stone’s curriculum has multiple implementation styles to support any language classroom. The program is flexible, and students can access activities anytime and anywhere, making  each unit easy to use as a warm-up, a station, or a homework assignment. To support each classroom’s needs, Rosetta Stone offers extensive Teacher Resources to support learning progression. Here are a few of our favorites:

• Classroom Activity Guide: Find instant inspiration on ways to engage students and meaningfully support their online language lessons. Each activity outlines the time, objective, materials needed, and procedure so that teachers have everything they need to jump right in with their students!
• Image Cards: Save valuable time searching for relevant pictures that illustrate the vocabulary. These full-color images are aligned to each unit in the curriculum to help spark conversations, initiate writing prompts, or review for an exam.

The Teacher Resources page also has printable sign-on cards, a Headset Setup Guide, and an At-Home Learning Quick Start Guide. And, there are even more language-specific resources to support instruction, including printable tests and workbooks with answer keys, PDF versions of Stories, or additional audio recordings in the target language.

Offers unlimited learning on a single platform

Rosetta Stone for Schools is a powerful tool for world language classrooms, providing a comprehensive curriculum and state-of-the-art pronunciation tool in a single platform. With Rosetta Stone, students tap into their innate ability to learn languages, building their confidence and their ability to communicate effectively in a new language.

Ready to enhance your schools’ world language program? Contact us for more information, or visit rosettastone.com/schools.