VOA慢速英语: 塞内加尔使用科技教授阅读

Senegal Uses Technology to Teach Reading

塞内加尔使用科技教授阅读

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.

越来越多的人使用短信、电子邮件和社交媒体来交流。在塞内加尔，教育者运用新科技来教授女人阅读。联合国教育、科学和文化组织两年前在塞内加尔启动这项计划。但是联合国教科文组织的官员把这项计划扩展到非洲其他六个国家。

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.

玛利亚玛·达夫坐在电视机前，她家在塞内加尔首都达喀尔附近的一个社区。她正在学习书写、使用数字。达夫一年前开始这个在家学习的项目计划。那时她39岁。

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.

教育部加入到联合国教科文组织的项目计划中，来为扫盲工作——读、写进行培训。这个项目计划每天在国家电视台播出。参与培训的女士说这些课程使得她们更独立了。

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

玛利亚玛·达夫说：“这些天我用手机，可以阅读信息，也能发信息了。”

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.

达夫结束她的课程后，然后开始为她的丈夫和三个孩子准备晚餐。她说电视节目很方便。她一周学习三个模块，因为她有全职工作，每天还得乘坐两个小时的汽车。

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.

在家学习的计划很容易操作，价钱也不贵。这对她们很有用，特别是在像塞内加尔的地方，受资金限制，没办法学习认字。

But some women prefer the classroom experience.

但是有些女士更喜欢在教室学习的体验。

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.

离玛利亚玛·达夫的家只有十分钟的路程，女人们在当地的小学黑板上书写。39岁的阿斯托·凯塔说学习永远都不晚。

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

她说：“我的孩子还嘲笑我，我在这个年纪开始学习是件很有趣的事。”

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.

马马杜·狄亚乐是个老师。他使用手提电脑和投影仪准备相互作用式显示墙，学生使用显示墙，这样一节数学课就教完了。

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.”

狄亚乐说女人第一次看到相互作用式显示屏时，她们就感兴趣，迫不及待的想要试一试。他告诉她们：“首先，开始上数学课之前，我们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.

他让一个学生读一个字符的求解问题，然后用数字来练习。

She then answers the mathematical problem on the wall.

然后她在显示墙上回答数学问题。

I’m Jerri Watson.

我是杰瑞·瓦特森。