I would like to hear your opinions about dictionaries.

 

I teach English for young beginners (8-11 years old) of different nationalities and I believe they should learn how to use a dictionary. English-English dictionaries with pictures help to develop their English, but often the definitions contain even more new words that my students do not know.

 

So what I do, I have a new word of the day that we look up in a dictionary as a class and we try to work out the definition together.

Sometimes we have a dictionary word hunt with the time limit that creates  quite an excitement, but generally my students prefer to use their multilingual electronic dictionaries.

There are plenty of online dictionaries as well that we use sometimes, but it hurts to see these great Oxford and Macmillan dictionaries with ullustrations for different age groups that my students don �t lke to use much.

 

I would love to hear your thoughts about this.

 

Zulia