“In a time where the paradigm is shifting towards online education and virtual classrooms, tools like PictureBook are becoming increasingly important in assisting young children in their language learning studies. The product integrates seamlessly with Google Meets to provide on demand voice-to-text, text-to-picture multilingual ‘translations’ with filters on the different parts of speech and an option to review the cards all together afterwards. By adopting a visual approach, the product has great potential in accelerating young children’s ability to learn a new language.”
Chris Jim
Software Engineer at Amazon
“As an educator myself, I would like to commend this team of passionate young students who want to bring positive and significant change to the ESL learning. Although linguistics is not my specialty, there is evidence in the literature that early mastery of phonetic units of language requires learning in a social context. Learning through a visual learning platform could provide great help for those very young kids who are struggling to learn a new language. This would help them to adapt to a new environment quickly and excel in their studies. I think that this could also reduce the amount of mental stress caused by not being able to speak English fluently for K-grade 3 ESL students. I wish this group of young educators a great success.”
Dr. Steven Wang
Professor in Statistics, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, Canada
“Having a program that has picture support built in would be SO in building knowledge and understanding quickly... If [students] had some kind of access to picture support right away without the teacher having to pick pictures and put them together, that would save SO much time. Students would understand much more quickly.”
Lucy Vieco
ESL Teacher at Hicksville School