week 7

Vocabulary acquisition and reading comprenhension plus online dictionaries.

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This time the readings are focused on teaching vocabulary and reading by using CALL and the usefulness of online dictionaries or learner dictionaries which are very used by foreign learners nowadays. It is very important to mentioned that vocabulary and reading are closely and reciprocally related one each other, what means that people who are disciplinated readers or like to read are people with a more wide vocabulary acquired. In the actuallity, multimedia which is a computter-based system and an interactive tool, offers a lot of contents that teachers can applyto in all the lessons. This way to teach has had good results to make students enhance the acquisition and comprenhesion of the foreign language. Talking about the learner dictionaries I considered them totally complete because they show a precise explanation of the meaning of the word that we are searching but also it shows sentences and the different meanings that it can has according to the parts of speech. Something I have learned from this week readings are the five features about Online English-English learner dictionaries (1.Corpus-based dictionaries, 2.Word frequency,  3.Collocations,  4.Authentic examples,  5.Topical vocabulary)  and is very interesting because each of them has been designed to enhable all the learning that students need to know deppending of the course they are taking, also what caught my attention is the recomendations for teachers to go to the correct option in the moment of recomend it to the students.