International Journal of Language & Literature

Facilitating Reading Comprehension with Online Dictionaries
Xueping, Li

Abstract
The online dictionary as a new electronic product has opened up a new range of tasks to facilitate reading comprehension and has become an efficient teaching-aid for English learning. This paper is intended to illustrate the practical application of online dictionaries in reading classroom activities based on the essence of reading. Some widely used online dictionaries in English learning are recommended in the paper. And a specific task using one online dictionary as an example is designed to show how to efficiently use the resources in the dictionaries to facilitate reading comprehension with encouraged output. The tasks of this kind can also provide rich information for teachers’ research use to testify the efficiency of online dictionaries in reading lessons and explore more on their applications in English teaching and learning.

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