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Ask for help > Well, not "bye for now", after all...
Well, not "bye for now", after all...
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ELOJOLIE274
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techically definitions have no copyright (even though the dictionaries have one...), as long as you �re not scanning an entire page from a dictionary it should be fine! and I wouldn �t say dictionaries are not ESL resources... don �t worry too much!!! have a great week-end ;)
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18 Nov 2010
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Jayho
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Hi Magneto
An acknowledgement of the source of your definitions at the bottom of the WS should suffice.
Cheers
Jayho
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18 Nov 2010
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Olindalima ( F )
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Dear Magneto,
Two things are for sure, as you hace already said:
"they" have no copyright, as far as I know, ......either you copy/paste pages and pages on end,or otherwise, you are just copying / stating an info, given for one dictionary.
Are they an esl resource?
Not sure, if you struggle hard about what esl resources are, well,I wouldn � t consider dictionaries as an ESL. Most of us don �t use them, as an esl resource; soour students usually use our small, addressed vocabulary sheets, we use small pictionaries, short lists... dictionaries are, no more an esl resource, when we speak of beginners or pre- intermediate students.
We prepair their own small, private, thematic dictionaries, our students are not anymore used to check up words in dictionaries.
Not that I agree with this, but , a fact.
Today, I asked my kids to give me back a few words (5/ 6 ) similar words, homework.
And they asked:
How? do we have to check in a dictionary?
NO, just check in your own notebooks, the answers are there.
OK, that �s fine; we thought we had to check that in a dictionary,
hat would be a very hard, hard homework.
My kids, however I try, don �t use a dictionary, moreover in a second language.
So, my opinion,just me and my thoughts,Magneto, Ican �t see any problem in coty/paste definitions from a dictionary.
On the other hand, as far s it concerns to me, I must say, you have just waken me up for something I should have been doing and, have failed,: Students must get used to " read" a dictionary. The way you show is ONE way.
Go on,upload aand, if you have any troubles let e know, I �ll try and go to the reporting page and fight for this.
PS. Sorry, if you see maby mistakes, as I have said fefore, night lifgt is a bad light for me; I CAn �t see well enought with electric light-
I trie d to check, but , not ssuer what I did
Hugs
LInda
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19 Nov 2010
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magneto
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Good morning from Greece!
Thank you all for your replies! I guess I �ll just have to take my chances and upload that ws when I finish it...Wish me luck!
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19 Nov 2010
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...I guess I �ll wait for a few more answers, just to be on the safe side.
