[NIFL-ESL:8121] Re: ESL dictionaries

From: Marie Martin (mmartin126@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Oct 07 2002 - 14:22:26 EDT


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From: "Marie Martin" <mmartin126@hotmail.com>
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Hi,

I, too, like the New Oxford Picture Dictionary.  I also have had good 
results with the cd rom version of this as well.  The sound effects are 
great!  The arrow scrolling takes a little getting used to for the larger 
vocabularies, but once mastered, it is fine.  This is very user friendly.

Marie Martin
ESOL Program Manager
Literacy Volunteers of America-New River Valley
200 Miller Street
Blacksburg, VA 24060




>From: Amanda Wendt <Wendt@AXP.WINNEFOX.ORG>
>Reply-To: nifl-esl@nifl.gov
>To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov>
>Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8120] ESL dictionaries
>Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:33:27 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
>A few days ago, I seem to recall someone asking about good beginner level
>ESL dictionaries... Sorry,  the answer might already have been provided, I
>haven't been watching the list very well, but I wanted to suggest the 
>Oxford
>Picture Dictionary. I use it in my low and intermediate level ESL classes 
>as
>well as with one-on-one tutoring because it is organized by subject matter
>instead of alphabetically and it lends itself nicely to lessons. A teachers
>manual, audio tape, and workbooks are also available. It comes in
>monolingual as well as a variety of other languages. I usually order it
>through New Readers Press but I know that it is also available through 
>other
>catalogs as well.
>
>wendt@axp.winnefox.org
>
>Amanda Wendt, Program Assistant
>Winnebago County Literacy Council
>Oshkosh, WI 54901




Marie Martin
ESOL Program Manager
Literacy Volunteers of America-New River Valley
200 Miller Street
Blacksburg, VA 24060



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