What is this?
Visuwords is an online graphical dictionary which can be used to look up vocabulories, English explanations and other associated words and concepts. It is an useful online dictionnary for students to increase their motivation and autonomy in terms of vocabulary learning.
Visuwords is an online graphical dictionary which can be used to look up vocabulories, English explanations and other associated words and concepts. It is an useful online dictionnary for students to increase their motivation and autonomy in terms of vocabulary learning.
How might you use it in a language teaching context?
For example,
Enter a word you want to look up into the search bar
The tree below shows various meaning and related words of the target word. . Besides, you can click and drag the node to zoom and clarify connections. The bar on the left side is to explain different colors and shapes indicate different relationship.
You can double-click a node to expand the word tree for more words and concepts or just put the cursor on one particular node for more specific word definition
Why is the content good for language learning?
- Visual word network stimulate learners to dig more associated words in depth.
- Clear words categories and definitions. Learners can search any new words on it by themselves rather than rely on teacher's explanation.
- Increase student's autonomy.
Limitation
- Too much signs (colors and shapes) of indicating the words relationship to remember.
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