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Advantages Of Online Dictionaries

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Introduction and background: Students at higher education institutions around the globe feel the need to finish extensive reading assignments for their various courses. Such readings are mostly done in English, the language of instruction at most universities including those in Palestine. This is truer in the case of students majoring in English language and literature since they are normally required to read hundreds of pages overnight to fulfill requirement of their literature, linguistics, or translation courses. It is also worth mentioning that a considerable amount of the students' reading is done online due to the scarcity of print sources at their university or to the convenience of such sources for saving, compiling and editing especially for the purpose of academic writing. …show more content…

Besides enjoying the general features of a CD -Rom, online dictionaries also boast an additional feature which is being continuously updated to include new information, hence providing learners with the latest and most recent data. These dictionaries also have several types such as the learner's dictionary, the translator dictionary and the specialist dictionary. Some online dictionaries do not have a print version and have been designed especially for the web, such as Dictionary.com. Online dictionaries possess an additional advantage, namely, the hypertext links which allow them to provide access for unlimited amounts of information and elaboration about specific details on the main page. These details include the origin of certain word parts and the meaning of synonyms. These dictionaries also provide access to educational activities such as worksheets, interactive contests and games, as well as follow up on words newly added to language. Such features make an online dictionary a perfect learning tool besides being a source of information or word definitions and

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