[etni] dictionaries
- From: Yisrael and Batya Medad <ybmedad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ETNI <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:55:11 +0200
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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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