Session 2 Reflection - Useful language investigation tools

I really like the language tools that being introduced tonight in class. They are definitely very useful for helping students to improve their choice of words. As a L2 learner, I usually use the bilingual online dictionaries to look up some of the English words. In class, we have compared some online dictionaries and I found out that there are lots more other options that I can use and introduce to my students. I also like the corpus from BYU (http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/). I actually used it for a few times when I was in college since I have been studying in BYU-H for about four years. It reminds me that it is a great tool to see how native speakers actually use the words. It amazed me that how different the words have been being used. Moreover, the google fight and sentence checker are also awesome and fun (https://textranch.com/sentence-checker/
http://www.googlefight.com/) I would love to use these tools and bring them into the classroom.

 Online dictionaries:

1.      1. http://www.ldoceonline.com/
2. http://dictionary.reference.com/
3. http://hk.dictionary.yahoo.com/
4. http://www.macmillandictionary.com/
5. http://www.learnersdictionary.com/ (Merriam-Webster’s Learner’s Dictionary)
6. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/
7. http://www.merriam-webster.com/
8. http://www.collinsdictionary.com/
9. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/