Book of Mormon Stories Diglot Reader on Computer

• Main Author: Harmon, Neal S.
• Format: Others
• Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2002
• Subjects: Book of Mormon stories; History; criticism; Polyglot readers; Primary; Electronic books; First and Second Language Acquisition; Mormon Studies
• Online Access: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4762; https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5761&context=etd

This report describes the design, development, and evaluation of a computer-based diglot reader of the Book of Mormon Stories of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Di means two and glot means language, thus a diglot reader combines two languages into one reader in order to teach a person to read in a new language. The program, which runs on both Macintosh and Windows computer platforms, contains fifteen chapters of the Book of Mormon Stories and introduces about four hundred Spanish words. This report includes a literature review on the diglot method and related materials, a description of the program and its features, and an evaluation of the program including eight one-to-one evaluations and a small-group evaluation. The small-group evaluation volunteers completed a pretest, studied the reader, completed a posttest, and filled out a questionnaire for their evaluation of the product. Finally, the report examines the strengths and weaknesses of the program and suggests some general guidelines for future diglot reader computer programs in general.