Posted in CALL, LSP, Materials design, Useful links, Vocabulary, tagged lexicography on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The WordNet project of Princeton University groups words into sets of cognitive synonyms. This modern thesaurus can be searched with a browser. The information you get when you search for the word travel, for example, looks like this:
However, if you check the same word in Visuwords, it’ll look like this:
Learners may find the second more [...]
Posted in CALL, LSP, Materials design, Vocabulary, tagged workshop on May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A CALL workshop was organized last Saturday by the E-Learning SIG of the Slovene Association of LSP Teachers. It was hosted by Saša Sirk from Tehniški šolski center in Nova Gorica.
There were two workshops: searching for authentic materials and using Vocabulary Profiler for material design (Violeta Jurković) and using Hot Potatoes (Vida Zorko).
A few photo [...]
Posted in Vocabulary on January 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Do you feel like playing a really challenging game? There’s a new vocabulary game in English or in French.
It seems pretty simple. You just need to list the associations a word evokes in you. However, there’s a twist: you’re playing this game against somebody whose associations may be different and what counts is the associations [...]
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