**** ETNI on the web http://www.etni.org.il http://www.etni.org **** 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 sarag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yisrael and Batya Medad" <ybmedad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "ETNI" <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 8:55 AM Subject: [etni] dictionaries > **** ETNI on the web http://www.etni.org.il http://www.etni.org **** > > 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 > > > > ##### To send a message to the ETNI list email: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ##### > ##### Send queries and questions to: ask@xxxxxxxx ##### ##### To send a message to the ETNI list email: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ##### ##### Send queries and questions to: ask@xxxxxxxx #####