2. Chapter 8 Online reference tools

3. Dictionaries and thesauruses Monolingual dictionaries Monolingual dictionaries Electronic dictionaries Electronic dictionaries

4. Thesauruses 1.Thesauruses are more suited to the intermediate and advanced levels than to the elementary or pre-intermediate level 1.Thesauruses are more suited to the intermediate and advanced levels than to the elementary or pre-intermediate level 2. It can encourage learners to be more adventurous in their creative writing 2. It can encourage learners to be more adventurous in their creative writing

5. Concordancers and corpuses for language analysis Concordancers  similar to a search engine Concordancers  similar to a search engine Corpuses  compiled from a variety of sources Corpuses  compiled from a variety of sources

6. Use in the class Test material  cloze test or exam practice materials. Test material  cloze test or exam practice materials. Examples: “ what ’ s the difference between glisten and glitter? ” Examples: “ what ’ s the difference between glisten and glitter? ”

7. Translators for language analysis An intermediate translation class An intermediate translation class Encyclopedias for research and project work  collection of volumes Encyclopedias for research and project work  collection of volumes  CD-ROM  CD-ROM  collection of websites  collection of websites