In our exam today, some of you did have the dictionary, a few even had two (bilingual and monolingual) and some of you were struggling to get one to check on the meaning of certain words. At Departmental exams, we cannot borrow or lend dictionaries (neither students nor teachers). So please get a monolingual dictionary (English-English) for the Departmental exam ahead of time.How do you feel about dictionary use? Do you depend on it, just check it once in a while, almost never use it, use it too much, prefer bilingual dictionaries? Did you know that there are bilingualized dictionaries with the meaning in English but the meaning in Spanish as well. They are not very common and I used to have one until I lent it to a student, I forgot about it and it was never returned to me ... therefore, I seldom lend my dictionaries.
I hope to find your comments and ideas on how to use dictionaries, how they work best for you and tips for classmates to use them more efficiently.
By the way (por cierto), I looked up the word "reviled" from the quiz today and this is what I found.
2 comments:
well, I depended of the dictionary, before to begin the university; but now I try to understand of word for the context if I don't understand it I use it. I have never used a monolingual dictionary, and I don't have one. But how in the departmental exam can't use the bilingual dictonary, I have to buy a monolingual dictionary, and my english course tell me that I have to use it, too. It isn't only for that, I am going to buy that dictionary, is because I am going to learn new words in english and I am going to know how to do a definition in english.
Cuando tenemos el diccionario a mano nos sentimos más seguros en el examen, ya que sabemos que contamos con ese apoyo. En cambio, si vemos una palabra que desconocemos y no tenemos el diccionario probablemente nos bloqueemos y no respondamos correctamente el examen por esa palabra que nos perturbó.
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