Senin, 04 Mei 2015

Electronic Dictionary In Education



Electronic Dictionary In Education

An electronic dictionary is a dictionary whose data exists in digital form and can be accessed through a number of different media. Electronic dictionaries can be found in several forms, including:
  • as dedicated handheld devices
  • as apps on smartphones and tablet computers or computer software
  • as a function built into an E-reader
  • as CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs, typically packaged with a printed dictionary, to be installed on the user’s own computer
  • as free or paid-for online products
Most types of dictionary are available in electronic form. These include general-purpose monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, historical dictionaries such as the Oxford English Dictionary, monolingual learner's dictionaries, and specialized dictionaries of every type, such as medical or legal dictionaries, thesauruses, travel dictionaries, dictionaries of idioms, and pronunciation guides.
Most of the early electronic dictionaries were, in effect, print dictionaries made available in digital form: the content was identical, but the electronic editions provided users with more powerful search functions. But soon the opportunities offered by digital media began to be exploited. Two obvious advantages are that limitations of space (and the need to optimize its use) become less pressing, so additional content can be provided; and the possibility arises of including multimedia content, such as audio pronunciations and video clips. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_dictionary).

Electronic dictionary is one of part of ICT that can use in education. It has advantages and disadvantages in using it. I want to analyze the advantage and disadvantage of using electric dictionaries.Because nowadays more and more students use electronic dictionaries instead of ordinary dictionaries, The discussion about using electronic dictionaries has been popular these years.

Let's have a look at its advantages and disadvantages first.The most important advantage of an electronic dictionary is that it’s very convenient to use. Whenever you meet new words or expressions, you can know the meaning quickly.You don’t need to waste much time turning the page seeking for the new words . What's more, electronic dictionaries are becoming more and more advanced: they can pronounce the words clearly, provide sample sentences to illustrate word usage and store difficult words for special memorization.Thats special function may help you remember some new words with high efficiency .Last but not least, the designing of electronic dictionaries are more and more portable, and they are easy for students carrying.

 However, the negative effects are also obvious. First of all, students may rely too much on the electronic dictionary—they never put their heart into learning new words and expressions. secondly, some explanations are neither complete nor accurate, which are quite misleading. Finally, the convenient ways do not necessarily lead to progress in learning. Diligence is always the decisive factor, because "there is no royal road to learning".

 Up until now, we can see it clearly that an electronic dictionary is not beneficial or harmful in itself. The key lies in the user—so long as we can make proper use of it, it can be helpful to us in many respects.So no matter what kind of dictionaries we used,we shall remember the new words as soon as possible after searching them (http://w521f12.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-advantage-and-disadvantage-of-using.html).




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