The program in detail
This novel program allows the teacher to present the student with recorded examples of words and listen to how he or she repeat them.
The aim is to let the student listen carefully to a word and compare his or her own attempt to reproduce the sound. This process may be repeated as required before moving on to the next word, whilst a separate program allows the pupil to record and save his or her attempts for checking later.
Visual display of phonemes
A useful feature of the program is a display of a mouth saying the appropriate phonemes. When required, this will 'mouth' the sequence making up a word. The editor supplied with Chatback enables the teacher to quickly prepare new word lists.