My Words is a program to learn English vocabulary from any website. The way to use My Words could roughly say as two functions. One is to highlight the new words learners come across in the websites. From this step, learners could quickly access to the meaning of the new vocabulary and add it to the word list of learners’ own. Function 2 is that learners could systematically learn the new words in the word list and even learn more from the relevant information.
This is very good for self-study. Learners could learn new vocabulary, not only the meaning but also the correct pronunciation. Moreover, a word list could collect all the random words picked up from the website and become valuable materials for revision.
I find that this program is quite useful for it is convenient to some degree. However, I don’t think learners would fall in love with it at the very beginning. It looks complicated and sometimes it really is. Steps involved in creating the word list are sort of distracting. Thus learners would be impatient to go through all the steps needed. After all, not everyone is genius in using the computer.
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Make sure you don't over-depend on programs like these as learners tend to forget the meaning of words right after looking them up. Try to deduce a word's meaning from its immediate context instead.
ReplyDeleteHello Iris
ReplyDeleteThanks for your reflection.
I find my words program quite useful and I fell in love with it when I first used it. You know, many students in HK hate keeping a vocabulary book and writing down the words they have learnt in class. With my words, students can do all that on the Net. This is the thing i love most.
Yes, this is really a useful websites to Hong Kong students since they like to pay much attention on learning vacabulary than any other areas, like pronunciation. It will get popular among them. Also, reading skills could be improved through it as well.
ReplyDeleteHi Iris,
ReplyDeleteMy word seems can save reader's time to check the meaning from a dictionary.
I think it is quite convenience to use, right?
Iris,
ReplyDelete'Mywords' is a good software because it somewhat fulfills the scaffolding process during learning. Students usually forget the meaning of a word they have learnt. If they have the chance to add new words learnt to a spool, they will stay longer in their mind.