Wednesday, March 16 2016

Week 9: Increasing vocabulary using online resources

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Susana Constanza

One of resources and the most common which we can assist vocabulary are dictionaries. I remember  at the begnning, when I was studying English in the school, I used to use English-Spanish, Spanish –English dictionary, the most famous dictionary and all of my classmates used to use it as well. We didn’t have access to online –dictionaries because technology was not close us. However, nowadays, dictionaries on line have been increase and we are able to have access to them, and also those appear as applications on cellphones. When I start use online Cambridge, Webster, McMillan dictionaries on line I noticed that they are so helpful and easy to use them.

In general terms, vocabulary and reading are closely related. Now I won’t talk about dictionaries, I will talk about using technology to acquire vocabulary. I consider that students feel more motivated learning vocabulary online or through different activities using computers, such as games, power presentations, websites, etc. We have a lot of advantages compared with the last years where technology has not been increase in the teching field. The article remarks the benefits of using multimedia which plays an important part in reading comprehension. In my point of view, I consider that teacher is the facilitator to provide students meaningful task using technology in  which they can work and make a comprehensible reading and then acquire the vocabulary, and students need to be oriented about  the pronunciation and look for the most reliable resource which provide meaningful learning and enrich the vocabulary