What is wrong with the bilingual dictionaries?



You can use a single dictionary is hard work, especially if you have to carry it all the way to class yourself! There are a lot of good reasons why your teacher might want to train you to use the English dictionary of English, but, even if any of the reasons the following are true for you or for your class and is probably worth listening to the teacher's, and put in extra effort. There are a couple of times, but when the bilingual dictionary (such as French or English dictionary Chinese dictionary and English) is the best and you may want to insist that your teacher let you use it. These reasons are listed at the bottom.


Good reasons to use the English dictionary of English in the classroom


1. Stop translation
The most important reason to start using the dictionary only in English is the same reason that teachers insist on using only the English in the classroom. If you can turn off the part of the brain L1 in the class will eventually become possible to think in English and even speed up your understanding and producing language.Monolingual dictionary used not only means you're reading in English, and avoid your language, but you can also copy the definition to the bottom of your laptop and increase the use of English outside of class as well.


2. Dual practice
And many of the students when they are looking for a single word in the English dictionary will find difficult it explained only with another word that is also difficult do not know. This rarely happens with the dictionary right and if this happens all the time you should probably easier to use one dictionary as an elementary learners. If this still happens sometimes even when you have the right to the dictionary, and this means that you do not know the word in the definition is also very useful and therefore you get double the practice of English language by learning that one, too.



3. Degrees
As mentioned above, English language English language dictionaries are available in many different levels. Using an educated middle Dictionary, for example, you will know that any words that you read in the text that do not appear in the dictionary are not important enough to learn at this stage of studies in the English language and thus can be ignored. If there was a lot of words in the article that you read is not in the dictionary for your level, and this is also a good sign that the text is very difficult and you should read the text of graded instead. Not bilingual dictionaries are often classified as such.


4. Words that do not translate
Another student and if the problem is that they understand the definition of English but still can not think what is that word in their own language, and so they go to a bilingual dictionary to check.Usually, though, this means that the translations are not really given the same thing as the English word. This is especially true with the words features, which look the same word in different languages ​​may have very different meanings of positive and negative. This is another case in the translation which help to stop this case to find out the truth of what the English word means.


5. Learn English grammar words
The students complain also that sometimes words such as "Name" and "circumstances" in the dictionary of the English language, English made it difficult to understand the definitions, but these are the words that you will also need to be able to study English without the use of language you. Dictionary is a very good place to learn the words of the grammar because it is repeated the same words many times. These words can be copied down (or short versions such as "N" or "adware") when you learn new vocabulary to help you learn the vocabulary words better and learn grammar at the same time. The knowledge of these words in the English language also helps to discuss the language with people who do not speak your language, for example if you study abroad.


6. More information
A good English-English dictionary for learners of foreign language contains a lot of additional information from the study that most bilingual dictionaries rule out such words used in the English language, and more definitions for every word, common misconceptions and errors, the phonemic script and pronunciation
  
7. Check with the teacherIf the teacher does not speak your language very well, and the only way that can check if you have the right sense of the word you are looking for and if the definition in English.


8. In linking with a book
Some textbooks and exercises that you need to monolingual dictionaries.


9. Learn to explain in English
The way in which the dictionary explains the word in simple language is very similar to what you will need to do if you can not think of a word in English and have to explain what they mean in other ways. And read those kinds of interpretations make it easier for you to provide explanations, such as yourself, "I can not think of one word, but it is a kind of ...".


10. Reducing the use of dictionary
Because the use of the English dictionary of English and more time to use a single dual-language, especially the electronic one, and this can stop the students using dictionaries a lot when we have to listen to the teacher or guess words from context.

11. Quality control
Using a good English-English dictionary for students recommended by your teacher, you can avoid some problems that bilingual dictionaries (especially including electronic) and like a lot of useless words, or did not use the old one and not definitions of each word.


Good reasons to use a bilingual dictionary in class

There are several times when the best single-dictionaries, as is the case when you are looking for something that you know the name of your language, but can not explain or draw. Words that are almost impossible to explain only in English and include vegetables and other plants, fish and other animals. If your teacher has seen that you have made a good effort to use English only as far as possible and will trust you when you say that sometimes the only way for you to find this word is to use a bilingual dictionary