If you create an English-language Mastery Connect item or passage that contains text in another language, you can manually tag selected text using HTML. When you tag text with a specific language, the text-to-speech tool reads the tagged text using that language’s pronunciation.
Note: Alternatively, you can create an item or passage in a different language, which the text-to-speech tool reads entirely using the pronunciation of the selected language.
Create or Edit Item or Passage
Create or edit an English-language item or passage. You can create or edit an item within an item bank or from within an assessment. You can also create or edit a passage within an item bank or from within an assessment.
Within the Item Editor, enter text that contains both English and phrases or words in another language.
Note: You can learn more about adding text for specific item types.
Open Source
To edit the text in HTML, click the Source button.
View Source
The Source window displays the item text in HTML.
Add Language Tags
Enter <span dir="ltr" lang="[language code]"> before the non-English words or phrases [1].
Enter </span> after the non-English words or phrases [2].
To save the changes, click the OK button [3].
Example: To tag text in Spanish, enter <span dir="ltr" lang="es"> before the Spanish text and </span> after it.
