Pronunciation Function

Respondents' enthusiasm for hearing their ED pronounce words was not high.

While a few felt this function was "very important", the vast majority felt it was only "somewhat important" or "not important", suggesting that few students have any intention of actually trying to say their newly acquired words.

Conclusion to the 1^stchapter.

A new technology tends to be used in the same way as the traditional technology it supersedes. For many years during the twenties and thirties, movies were vaudeville and stage shows on a big screen. The earliest computer assisted language learning packages were little more than textbooks on a small screen.

At present, electronic dictionaries are still fundamentally paper dictionaries on a microchip. They have certain unique functions, such as error tolerant input, crossreferencing (e.g. synonyms and antonyms), and word and spelling games, and they are probably faster to use. On the other hand, some people simply prefer the feel and legibility of paper. LCD can be hard to read in some lighting conditions, and it takes time to learn to use the functions of an ED.

CONCLUSION

In the research the learning value of the electronic dictionaries and encyclopedias in ESL learning has been proved during experimental teaching and many advantages of ESL teaching with their use have become obvious. The use of the computer dictionaries and encyclopedias not only diversifies the educational process, it also opens great opportunities for expansion educational frames, bears significant -motivational potential, and promotes realization of individual teaching principles. It allows increasing of the amount of self-directed learning and individual correction in processes of skills formation that subsequently improves the quality of foreign language learning as a whole. Working with computer dictionaries school students -have an opportunity to

- increase a speed of unfamiliar word searching;

- search word-combinations, words with incorrect spelling;

- use the means of multimedia for vocabulary learning; -use hyperlinks; track the actions.

Resources of the computer encyclopedias in teaching and learning process are considered to be useful topic-based language materials that are easy to include in outof-class ESL activities. The results of our research demonstrated the fact that students have successfully developed the reading comprehension and writing skills as they have had access to up-to-dated and fresh topic-based materials for reading activities and producing a variety of written works. The doubtless advantage of information resources of electronic dictionaries and encyclopedias is the big emotional impact on students of high school. Now with the full confidence it is necessary to say that this kind of computer technologies influences strongly on the whole educational process. As a result of the research aimed at determination of the role of computer dictionaries and encyclopedias, we offer following recommendations for the organization of inclass and out-of-class teaching and learning with the use of the computer dictionaries and encyclopedias: In order to bring the use of the computer dictionaries and encyclopedias to the level of free manipulation firstly teacher should give introduction course to students; In order to cover all vocabulary and save the time for searching the suitable equivalent teacher needs to create his own dictionary that includes the lexical units of the lesson; For the development of students' English learning autonomy based on the use of the computer dictionaries and encyclopedias teacher needs to present the language materials by using multimedia technologies in order to cover students' personal characteristics.

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