ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY ENGLISH PORTABLE

First, because it is much lighter than a paper dictionary and is accessible in multiple devices like phone, laptop, and public computer, e-dictionary has been largely stimulating EFL students’ initiative to practice their reading, writing, listening and speaking skills in anywhere and at anytime. Not only for me, but also for millions of English learners in china, have e-dictionaries brought tremendous positive impacts on their English learning. Because of the convenience of electronic dictionary, both quality and quality of my reading have been greatly improved. Reading became much easier and enjoyable for me: while I was reading articles online, I could put my mouse to capture the words I didn’t know and read through it in just one sitting.

ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY ENGLISH PORTABLE

Suddenly one day, almost all my classmates started to have electronic dictionaries (they were portable and looked like calculators), and soon after online dictionaries have been pervasive. This tendency made my English learning very inefficient and my enthusiasm to English quite low.

Even though the content of an article was very engaging for me, I would be discouraged by the broken reading experience and tedious words checking work, and eventually gave it up halfway. It was so frustrated when I tried to read a news article on Newsweek or New York Times because I might be stumbled by more than 50 words in one article and then spent two more hours to look them up in my thick and heavy paper dictionary.

More importantly, as my English teacher suggested, we should have at least two more dictionaries other than the basic one, like English-to-English and Word Roots Dictionary. I clearly remember that for every English class I had to carry a heavy Oxford Chinese-to-English dictionary so that I could look up all the new words I encountered in readings. When I was a teenager in China, English learning was an extremely tedious and painful experience.

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