Skills 105: Vocabulary

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Skills 105: Vocabulary

Welcome!

Here you will find selected links to online explanations, exercises, quizzes, tools, and resources that you can work on on your own.

If you are enrolled in a self-paced Skills course and would like to work on the course for credit, please login to the Self-Paced Skills Online Classroom. (see Self-paced Skills Online for more information.)
Some of the follow-up assignments in the Online Classroom refer to web sites listed on this page.

If you are not enrolled in a Skills class but are interested in improving your skills, or if you are enrolled and would like to just explore on your own without receiving credit or feedback from a Skills intructor, click on any of the links below to see what might help you the most.

Tools

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm
Merriam-Webster online dictionary and thesaurus
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/index.jsp
This visual thesaurus can give you some amazing (and beautiful) information about words.
http://www.edict.com.hk/studyguide/concorda.htm
This "Web Concordancer" lets you type in a word or phrase to search for in a file of texts and find real-life examples of words and phrases.

Strategies for Improving Vocabulary

http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/vocabula.htm#Vocabulary%20Strategies
Four strategies from Centre for Independent Language Learning
http://www.dvc.edu/english/Learning_Resources/ESL.htm
Vocubulary resources from Diablo Valley College
http://www.csupomona.edu/~lrc/crsp/handouts/context_clues.html
Using context clues to figure out the meaning of words as you read, from CSU Pomona

Self Study Courses

http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/vocabula.htm
Includes how to determine what you need to learn, strategies, materials, and tests.
http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/english/vocabulary.html

Vocabulary for English Language Learners (Ohio State University) Articles & Stories with Vocabulary Excercises

http://www.literacynet.org/cnnsf/archives.html
Articles on a variety of topics from CNN. Choose a story, then do vocabulary-building activities.
http://www.edict.com.hk/vlc/wnews/default.htm
http://www.edict.com.hk/vlc/comp/ReadComp.htm

General information about self-paced skills classes
Self-paced Skills Online
Skills Workshop Schedule

Updated Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 9:51:54 AM by Diana Alves De Lima - alvesdelimadiana@fhda.edu
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