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Recent thinking in vocabulary teaching is tending towards a dynamic, process-centred approach. Vocabulary learning is being seen more and more as a skill in which responsibility lies with the learner to develop his or her own lexicon. VocabBuddy has been designed with this in mind.
Teachers often advise learners to take notes on vocabulary items that they encounter for the first time in order to facilitate retention. However, it is important to remember that the simple act of storing a word--in whatever medium--does not guarantee its retrieval. Factors involved in short and long-term memorization will determine how well and for how long learners retain words. The strengths of the VocabBuddy program in this respect are that it allows learners to easily organise vocabulary items into meaningful groups, it increases the number of exposures learners receive to vocabulary items through the use of built-in vocabulary games, and it puts the onus on learners to choose which items to store.
Teachers of EFL recognise that it is difficult to select vocabulary items to cover with their classes since learners bring with them widely different vocabulary needs - a word unknown to one student may well be very familiar to his or her neighbour. Furthermore, research has shown that much vocabulary is learned by the students individually through reading, and not deliberately, under the teacher's control in class.
VocabBuddy aids EFL learners in this endeavour by enabling them to :
-create their own dictionaries of words and phrases each with notes, meanings, examples and pictures
-mark difficult or important entries in a Hotlist.
-listen to the pronunciation of any and all text with VocabBuddy's built in access to Microsoft text to speech technology
-play word games based on their dictionaries or Hot List, meanings and examples.
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A limited feature set version of VocabBuddy - the electronic vocabulary notebook for Windows that enables English language learners and allows them to:
Create their own dictionaries of words and phrases and annotate these with notes, meanings, examples and pictures.
Mark difficult or important entries in a Hot List.
Play games to aid with retention of the words.
Download extra wordlists free.
VocabBuddy Lite contains an extensive glossary of EFL terminology which is ideal for prospective EFL teachers especially those sitting exams such as the CELTA. Totally free.
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Sheet Lightning is a specialised engineering 2D/3D CAD System for creating and unfolding sheet metal designs for fabrication or manufacture. It handles everything from simple cylinders, cones, rectangular ducts and ovals, to adapters, adapting any of these section types, interections and multi-intersections between of any of these types to any level of complexity.
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Calculator.NET is an enhanced version of the standard calculator in Microsoft Windows. It uses RPN (Reverse Polish Notation), which is used by many pocket calculators, e.g. from HP. If you have used a HP 11/28/32/42/48, or any other RPN calculator, you will feel right at home. Some of the enhancements included: RPN, extended function set, and customizable user interface. This program is completely free.
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WakeUp is an experimental tool to test the features of ACPI computers. You can:
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- manually suspend your system
- have your system to resume after a specified amount of time or at a specific time
- configure WakeUp to launch an application or an URL on resume.
Note: make sure to quote the path to the executable to launch if it includes spaces.
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This German Characters program was written to allow you a simple and efficient way to use the accented alphabetic letters and characters that are unique to the German language and are not shown on your English keyboard. German Characters and the program you want to type in German have to be open at the same time, just click the German character you need and it will be inserted where your cursor was in your German document.
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Integrate a sophisticated digital or analog clock with your desktop, schedule reminders and other tasks up to a century in advance, keep your system clock accurate with an Internet atomic time server, display your clock as a screen saver and much more. Register as Shareware or choose the special half-price Bookware offer from Alchemy Mindworks. Configure the AMI Ultimate Screen Clock to suit your taste - impress anyone who walks past your desk.
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Forecast the impact of billing fee changes on Revenue, Profit and Client numbers. From basic billing and cost data billing change breakeven points are calculated for revenue and profit and a forecast built for the full range of current and proposed billing structure combinations. Full results are displayed in easy to interpret Charts and Table format. Details displayed include Revenue, Profit, and Client Numbers.
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Database Workshop is a professional multifunctional tool for working with databases and database objects. It uses the modern plug-in module technology that combines flexibility and versatility for working with various databases. First and foremost, Database Workshop is a data processing solution with data analysis options that can copy, export and import data to other tables. The program supports InterBase, MySql, Ms Sql, Oracle and many more.
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