Thursday, March 9, 2017





Week: 8
The importance of vocabulary and dictionaries in reading comprehension

Something interesting that call my attention about this article was the importance of the technology in second languages learners, but it really important mention that the dictionaries play a very important role by learners. Also, nowadays there is a great variety of dictionaries on line where students can find a lot of benefits like: pronunciation guides, extra grammar and vocabulary exercises, picture dictionaries and wildcard functions. This becomes more interested by learners when they use this king of tool. Also, students can use the dictionaries depending in their level, and their interested.

The vocabulary in second language learners is very important because if the students acquire vocabulary they increase their knowledge, and they will able to development all the skills in a good way also they will have a good reading comprehension. On the other hand, teachers are able to use different menthols to teach vocabulary in a class using computers I a class. Also, the multimedia glossing has a lot of benefits for reading comprehension and, consequently, for L2/FL vocabulary acquisition. In the conclusion, Vocabulary plays an important part in reading comprehension and techniques that are useful for vocabulary development (such as multimedia glossing) also benefit reading comprehension, and vice versa.

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2 comments:

  1. Hello Tatiana!
    Exactly, there is no doubt about it that dictionaries play a really important role in the process of learning a second language because as you mentioned in your blog this has a lot of benefits for instance to practice vocabulary and pronunciation by using visual technology aids. Moreover, technology has innovated the way what educators teach the second language, we know that use CALLs in classes increase students' interest and they engage in the lesson; as a result, they feel the class more interactive, fun, easy, improve their skills and their attitudes .So that, as a future teachers is necessary to apply those strategies to teach in a good way vocabulary because this develops students' communicative abilities.
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  2. Hello Taty, I agree with you in that topic because dictionaries are really important to the students when they have a rreading class. Also, I think that the dictionaries are a tool that help students in vocabulary context, and for the teachers too. For that reason, the online dictionaries are an option to use it if we have internet.

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