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Based
on the articles: Online English-English
Learner Dictionaries Boost Word Learning by
Dr. Eli Hinkel
&
Using
Technology to Assist in Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Comprehension by Andreea
I. Constantinescu
As students
we have read how technologies support learning in reading, writing, speaking and
listening; however, something I learned from this article and that every
teacher should know was that every teacher has to use online dictionaries for
effective learning. Online dictionaries are very useful for English learners
and they are really good substitute of the heavy and complex dictionaries. A
very good feature of the online dictionaries is that they have audio
pronunciations of the words; on the other hand, traditional dictionaries only
came with phonetic symbols. Besides, according to the author today online
dictionaries are learner-centered, corpus-based, and informed by second
language research and pedagogy; moreover, regular dictionaries are designed for
native speakers. The author explained what a learner’s dictionaries look like,
but the most important future is that they are learner-centered. A belief of
mine that was confirmed when the author said “Vocabulary is one of those things
where the rich get richer.
The second article focus on the achievement of
acquiring vocabulary and reading comprehension by the use of technology. acquisition
of reading skills is very important in L1 and L2, learners read a variety of
text in order to acquire and comprehend new vocabulary. After the author
presented the benefits of CALL for vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension.
CALL has a variety of software which contains high effectiveness because of its
multimedia on reading comprehension and vocabulary acquisition
I agree with you! The technology support learning in of all skills, And it benefits us a lot to improve our second language either to teach or learn it. Besides, as you have mentioned, on-line dictionaries are more complex than printed dictionaries, because on-line dictionaries have more features than the other, as you were saying, printed dictionaries have phonetic symbols, and the problem can be that maybe the student do not how those symbols are pronounced, so it would not help her/him, instead, in the on-line dictionary he can hear the pronunciation. Furthermore, is really important that students acquire vocabulary while reading different texts because that is the way how they will have reading comprehension.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Lineth, the article was very useful for me. In my case I had not noticed the difference between the user-dictionary and the learner-dictionary, but in order to learn vocabulary and more to teach our students to learn vocabulary we need to look in the correct source, and as mentioned dictionaries online are the best option, since it gives you all the aspect you need to learn when knowing a new word.
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