week 9: using online dictionary to acquire a new vocabulary and improving reading comprehension
Articles: 1. Using Technology to Assist in Vocabulary Acquisition and
Reading Comprehension (TESL_TEFL)
2. Online English-English Learner Dictionaries Boost Word Learning
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The reader
for this week it`s so interesting because is about online dictionaries that is
an strategic and effective word learning. The article mentions features very important
that include the best online learner dictionaries one`s a corpus-based compilation
of words in which the content is based on real-world spoken and written that
include organization of the word, the meaning and examples.
It is
important to raise both the teacher’s and the learner’s awareness about differences
in the way that general-use and corpus-based dictionaries are compiled because
language teachers can provide learners with eye-opening activities to explain
the distinctions between the two types of dictionaries
Other is
the Word frequency in where high-frequency words are important for language
learners, this makes English learning more efficient and strategically.
Other very important is the collocations that is identifying collocations and
incorporate them into learner dictionaries. That is the reason that many
learners often use or combine words like “do an appointment” instead of “make
an appointment,” To avoid these types of mistakes, learners of English are
encouraged to learn collocations.
Finally, I learn that is important to point out
that all of these features are designed to help students learn new words strategically
with an enjoyably method. As a future teacher I can say that when I become
familiar with the most useful elements of learner dictionaries, I can easily
incorporate dictionary-based activities into my lesson plans.
Good night Wendy, I was reading your blog and something that caught my attetion was the way how you explained each steps of the features of using General dictionaries and Learners dictionaries. I totaly agree with you, I think that we as teachers have to know how we need to help students in their learning process, and one useful tool is to help them to use learner dictionaries. This tool helps second language learners to decode a word using learner dictionary, since this dictionary explain different steps about how learners can understand and learn a new word. So I think that this article helps us a lot to improve or learning process.
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