[etni] [FWD: Re: quicktionaries]
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Subject: Re: [etni] [FWD: Re: quicktionaries]]
From: "Howard Hanan Sibirsky" <howdon@xxxxxxxxxx>
GOOD, JUST AS GOOD. I wonder what foreign language teachers must have said
the day the paper dictionary was first invented. I assume the same comments I
have been reading lately on this site.
IF IT WORKS FOR YOU THEN IT'S GOOD. Hanan
Batya wrote:
>> At 11:47 04/03/04 -0700, you wrote:
>>Good, let students of the English language use any tool to translate
>>whole sentences. I also include the still great paper dictionary.
>> The computer you have used to e-mail this note is a tool that has
>> made communication easier. Now we can
> Whether the computer is a tool and the quictionary is also a tool has
> nothing whatsoever to do with the subject. Our job is not to train our
> students to use technology. That's why I davka don't care that my students
> have no internet access when doing projects. We are supposed to teach
> them English, not technology.
> Personally I'd prefer that any paper dictionary be permitted for all
> students. Let them bring three or four, which would be much better
> teaching (and testing) tools, and far superior dictionary help, than the
> electric dictionaries. I specialize in teaching the weaker and mild learning
> disabled kids, and in my experience having a variety of paper dictionaries,
> like Passport and the white Oxford and red Zilberman(?) help them much
> more.
> When I teach higher level students, their composition-writing is far
> less stressful. When I studied Spanish in NY as a student, we were always
> allowed two-direction dictionaries, when dictionaries were needed.
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