 Re: Electronic dictionaries in class! Good or bad?
How many people are you teaching per class?
I assume you are dealing with a large class. In that case it's really difficult to answer everyone's vocabulary questions and spend the time demonstrating and/or explaining the word via oral English-English. Dictionaries are good tool in this case and the students can still be confussed by all the entries in regular dictionaries as well. Electronic dictionaries offer the users a lot more power in a lot less space - English-English, Japanese-English, Japanese-Japanese, Medical English, thesaurus and other functions.
If they're playing tetris or something like that, I would assume you need to enforce the same rule you would for cell phones or gameboys. |