[etni] Re: dictionaries
- From: sarag <sarag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ybmedad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, ETNI <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:58:38 +0200
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I think there is a problem with the cost. Dictionaries are expensive. How
can we ask the parents to buy one for 8th-9th grade, another for high
school? And what about the 3 pointers now, they need one for the "A",
another one for B and C . (And even though our school has "hashalat sfarim",
they don't get dictionaries from the school and have to buy them.)
sara
sara g in israel
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From: "Yisrael and Batya Medad" <ybmedad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "ETNI" <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 8:55 AM
Subject: [etni] dictionaries
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> Do we require/expect our 9th grade students to wear the same size clothes
> we expect them to fit into as 12th graders?
> Do we require/expect our 9th grade students to study from the same books
we
> plan on using when they're 12th graders?
>
> Yes? No? Certainly no. Right? Then why do we traumatize them with those
> black Oxford dictionaries in the 9th grade? The graphics are totally
> sadistic, especially for anyone with any visual learning
> "difference." The words are not lined up with their translations. After
> a few tries, students become "dictionaryphobic." Instead of learning that
> dictionaries are their "friends" and private tutors, they rightfully feel
> the opposite. By having user-friendly dictionaries available for my
> students, I've been able to encourage more dictionary usage.
>
> Let's go a step further. Instead of an "accommodation" to use electronic
> dictionaries, why can't our mld students be permitted to use any paper
> dictionary? I don't think the electronic ones are all that helpful, and
> they're terribly expensive.
>
> Now one more step.. I think that our students should be encouraged to use
> Hebrew-English dictionaries besides the English-Hebrew. Today even the 3
> point students have to write compositions.
>
> Batya
>
>
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