Week 8

Ways to improve their vocabulary ( Gabriela Orellana)

 This reading was very interesting because it is about vocabulary and I like this phrase that article say “Vocabulary is one of those things where the rich get richer.” by Dr. Eli Hinkel because is true, when the students know a lot of vocabulary they can be more communicative. Also, in this article shows six kind of the dictionaries to improve the vocabulary.They are Cambridge Learner’s, Cambridge Advanced Learner’s, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Macmillan, Merriam-Webster Learner’s, and Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary each dictionary has their function. Moreover, online dictionary should have a corpus-based compilation of words, collocation guides, and word frequency data. Besides that, the technology is very useful for the students with their advances nowadays until in their cellphone can be use it. Additionally, it is really important to make students to improve their vocabulary in different  ways and we as futures teachers are required to look for the best websites to make students improve their vocabulary and Taking into an account different task to ask them to complete. To conclude, if the students know or learn a good vocabulary their can have a good comprehension when they read something and they can improve a lot in other skill like speaking because they will have a good fluently.