The first
article is “Online English-English Learner Dictionaries Boost Word Learning”.
This article let us to know the importance to help students to introduce
dictionaries for language learners. There are different dictionaries that
students can use and get familiar with them. The dictionaries have features
such as, a corpus-based compilation of words, word frequency data, collocation
guides, authentic examples of words, and vocabulary. Some of the most common
dictionaries are: Merriam-Webster.com, Dictionary.com, oxford dictionary, Cambridge
dictionary, etc. Furthermore, something
I learned from this article was that building vocabulary it does not
consist only in knowing the meanings of the words, but it also consists in
using the words in context.
The second article
is “Using Technology to Assist in Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading
Comprehension” it is shown that nowadays multimedia plays an important role in
the improvement of acquiring vocabulary and reading comprehension. Technology
includes a combination of text, audio, images, video, graphics,
animation, and interactivity content forms. Vocabulary acquisition and reading
comprehension have a reciprocal relationship because when learners have a
large vocabulary, they decode more words automatically and they can comprehend
a text easily. If they have a larger vocabulary is going to be better to
perform with reading comprehension tasks. Learning vocabulary is very important
because is useful and beneficial for reading comprehension. What do you think
about the importance of learning vocabulary for reading comprehension?
I like your post. It is true that the articles talk about how important dictionaries or multimedia tool on the internet can help students to have more vocabulary. Most of the dictionaries online can be used, however, they are more focused on native speakers as the author mentioned in the article. So that, as your post says, “The dictionaries have features such as, a corpus-based compilation of words, word frequency data, collocation guides, authentic examples of words, and vocabulary.”
ResponderEliminarIn addition, I think that technology can provide us with very useful tool such as text, audios, videos, webpages, social networks, animation, etc that can make vocabulary learning process more interactive.