Deal with your vocabulary problems

Deal with your vocabulary problems:

E-referencing tools --Online Dictionaries



This week, I obtain some good resources about online dictionaries from my Computer Assisting Language Learning class, lectured by Sally Lai. As an foreign languages student, I always come to the problem of choosing a good and usful dictionary, what's worse, I need a lot of good dictionary in order to help my study. What do I mean a good and usful dictionary? It needs to content many lexicons, detail explanation, example sentences, source of the prefix, suffix, and the root. Well, such dictionary usually cost lots of money. However, my problem can be temperately solved by the online dictionaries. I personally love this kind of usful resource very much, such as Cambridge Dictionaires Online and Dictionary.com and MSN Encarta are my favorite and often used online dictionaries. Though online dictionary is convinience and free, I still prefer printed dictionary. Believe or not, check vocabularies from printed dictionary really help me to remember that word.


I. Some articles about dicitonaries in language learning

你不可不知的字典知識

如何選擇合適的字典

II. A lot of discussion on dictionaries (the section of 辭典探討)

George Chen on Blog

III. Some online dictionaries

a. Cambridge Dictionaires Online
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

b. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
http://www.oup.com/elt/oald/

c. Merriam-Webster OnLine
http://www.merriam-webster.com/

d. Dictionary.com
http://dictionary.reference.com/

e. OneLook Dictionary Search
http://www.onelook.com/

f. Acronym Finder: Find out what those acronyms and abbreviations stand for
http://www.acronymfinder.com/

g. Yahoo! Mini pen
http://tw.mini.yahoo.com/