Technology to enhance the students´ reading and vocabulary

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According to what I read in the articles “Using Technology to Assist in Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Comprehension” and “ Online English – English learner dictionaries boost word learning” I realized that by applying technology to vocabulary and reading comprehension, students can get a significant knowledge in these two aspects of language. Although reading is an important skill that involves the reader, the reader needs to know the vocabulary of what he/she is reading; so, why don’t we use technology to enhance these two important aspects of language? Technology has a lot of benefit at the time of learning but this time we are focusing on reading comprehension and vocabulary, so here we have some ways to enhance the reader’s skill. When students are reading, technology can reinforce their vocabulary through the application of online dictionaries because this can be very useful at the time of reinforcing the learning o words; in order to do that, teachers have to encourage students to be more strategic word learners by selecting dictionaries with the best word frequency features. Moreover, we have more techniques that teachers can apply on students in order to reinforce their vocabulary such as collocations, using authentic examples and topical vocabulary. Despites all that, we have the use of multimedia for vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension, there are some ways to enhance the students’ vocabulary and reading skill such as using multimedia glosses which is interaction of a media software with learners in order to improve the vocabulary acquisition. To conclude, we can say that technology is such a useful tool to enhance the reading and vocabulary that teachers should apply these techniques in their classrooms.