Based in the articles: Online English-English Learner
Dictionaries Boost Word Learning and Using Technology to Assist in Vocabulary
Acquisition and Reading Comprehension.
The use of dictionries online is a good and helpful tool for learners and teachers, bceause in this way students can learn new words and know the meaning of those words, also with the help of the internet students can acquire a new vocabulary in reading activities that can develop on the internet, it is important to mention that vocabulary plays an important role in the acquisition of a second language, and not only the acquisition of vocabulary, but also the use of this new vocabulary. As I mentioned before, reading activities are the best way in which students can acquire a new vocabulary, in this part it is important to use dictionaries because it has an important role because with the help of a dictionary student can find the meaning of a word. For those reason teachers are working with the idea to include the use of dictionaries online because is a new way for students to make use of the benefits that the internet offer and learn to make a good use of the internet too.
According to Hinke: "These online dictionaries
promote strategic and effective word
learning, but it is critical for learners
to be trained by teachers who are
familiar with proper dictionary use so
that the online dictionaries are used
to maximum benefit in the classroom" Also in the article she mentioned that a dictionary have to have five important features that make that the dictionary can be good for students learning, those features are 1-corpus-based
compilation of words; 2- word frequency
data; 3-collocation guides; 4- authentic examples of how words
are used; and 5- topical vocabulary
from different disciplines. Furthemore, due to advances in technology, learner dictionaries come in many forms: hard-copy books, CD-ROM, online, and even in applications for smartphones, tablet computers, and other mobile devices. This a advantage that the technology offer to learners, but is important to mention that not all the learners have the economic ease for buy a cellphone or a movil device in wich can have the dictionary, in those situation sometimes have a physical dictionary will be helpful for those students.
in my personal oppinion I belive that the use of the online dictionaies are a good tool for learners in order to acquire new vocabulary and have clear the meaning of the new words that they find in a readin activity or that they heard in a song.
Hello Isabel, I agree with you. Dictionaries are a good tool for students and teachers, also as a teachers we need to know which kind of dictonaries are helpful for our students in order to their understand the meaning of the words that they are looking for.
ResponderEliminarHello Isabel, I agree with you. Most of the time, students use a dictionary that is not the ideal for their learning when they are learners of ESL/EFL. Some dictionaries do no provide the elements that learners of English need, but other dictionaries has the elements for these learners. As you said, the technology helps a lot to the students because they can carry with them an online dictionary. If the learner does not know a word, it's easy to search for it and make clear the meaning, as you said, the learner acquires knowledge about the vocabulary and the meaning. And I think that some of the dictionaries for learners of ESL/EFL are in hard-copy books, the learners who do not have a mobile device can obtain one of that dictionaries. As a result, dictionaries and technology are a good combination for whatever activity which learners need to know new vocabulary or the meaning of a word.
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