Cristian Alberto Menjivar Alemán
Week 8: Online English-English Learner Dictionaries Boost Word Learning and Using Technology to Assist in Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Comprehension.
The
articles assigned for this week provide relevant information about vocabulary, the
use of CALL and technology. The first article provides a variety of different
dictionaries that student can use to look up for new words or phrases they are
not familiar with. Something that made me want to read more about this article
was that it presents five important features that dictionaries should contain to
enhance students’ vocabulary and learning.
The first
feature mentioned is corpus-based dictionaries which mean content is based on
real word. The second feature is word frequency meaning whether a word is used
very often or not that often. The third
feature is collocations it refers to the word combination that usually go
together. The fourth feature is authentic examples meaning that uses authentic
examples to illustrate the use of words in context. The last feature mentioned
is topical vocabulary which refers how the words relate semantically to
different categories.
The second
article talks about vocabulary acquisition to enhance reading comprehension.
Something that surprised me in this article was that it mentions that an
adequate understanding of academic texts requires a vocabulary of at least
7,000 words, also readers need to know the different meanings of words
according to the context and words’ grammatical properties.
The article
mentions the benefits of CALL for vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension.
It is interesting to see how technology keeps playing an important role for
teaching. Multimedia is one of the tools used which has various types of
content for example text, audio, video, graphics etc.
To sum up, there is a close relationship between vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension. Teachers and instructors should be aware of the important role that play multimedia and technology to apply it in their classes.
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Hello Christian, I was surprised as you about the minimum of word that students need to know to understand and read a basic text. Also, I consider that we as futures teachers can use multimedia tool to help our students´ to develop their vocabulary through activities that they can do at home. For example, looking for the meaning of new words in learners’ dictionary; after that when they come to class, they can exchange how they can use the new vocabulary. To finish, I believe that learners must acquire new vocabulary in order to have a good comprehension reading.
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