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2014 CALL Conference
LINGUAPOLIS
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1.
The introduction of a target word into the search box on the link of the Lingvo
dictionary http://lingvo.abbyyonline.com/ru, its translation into Russian, and then
selection of Russian cognate words and their subsequent translation to find
several options of word formation in English, for example,
pure
–
ч
;
ч
о а
–
purity
;
оч ща
–
purify
;
ч
о
-
purely
, etc. Note that the italicized
words in bold type were chosen by students themselves and the corresponding
translations into English turned out to be English cognate words with respect to
the initial English word
pure
. These newly found English words were used to
make up sentences as required in the task.
2.
The algorithm of the task can be different if one uses the Google search engine or
other dictionaries, for example, Multilex on the mobile phone, which, after
learners’ typing two or three letters of the target word immediately show the list
of cognate words that can be written out for further work and making up
sentences. For example, typing the word stem
magni
causes the display of the
following list of 8 words:
magnification, magnificence, magnificent, magnifier,
magnify, magniloquence, magniloquent, magnitude
. After checking the
translations of these words, students can select the most suitable of them for
further work with the word forms.
With regular execution of such search assignments during the semester students will not
only develop their linguistic competence, but acquire skills of using several electronic
dictionaries (Multilex, Multitran, Lingvo, Thesaurus.com, Webster, Onelook, etc.),
understand their preferences in the search activity. The habit of appealing to a specific
electronic resource formed in students during the course of foreign language learning, or,
in other words, the basic CALL competence, is to be demanded in the future when
searching and translating the necessary terminological collocations in their field of
knowledge, if necessary. They will be able to find the right word in the discussion of
professional problems with their English-speaking peers and colleagues. Vocabulary
search is thus actualized by considering alternative options for its implementation.
Comparison of the found variants and their relative usefulness in professional field may
become the main subject of discussion in class.
When doing the second task on
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