VISUAL DICTIONARIES

They constitute a powerful didactic tool, and also to estimulate curiosity. Learning concepts by means of words and images together implies a double understanding of the idea. For that reason, we may find numerous visual works in the market about all kinds of semantis fields: houses, clothing, vehicles, parts of eht body, plants, etc. Many of them comprise real universal knowledge, and they usually show it in different languages, as bilingual and trilingual dictionaries. From a visual point of view, editors usually call illustrators with well-defined styles, and with certain popularity, so as to convey pretige to the product. Sometimes these products are not only on paper, but also on the web, with a wide range of possibilities (interactivity, links, complementary activities, etc.).
SOME EXAMPLES
Dicionario Visual de Edicións, edited by Xerais, conveys not only the image of the concepts, but they also appear in more complez sceneries. Thus, readers can apprehend words not in an isolated way, but with a context which helps its understanding, and its relationship with the real world in general.

One example of visual interactive dictionary for the internet, the DICIONARIO VISUAL INTERACTIVO da Consellería de Educación e Ordenación Universitaria, with plenty of activities, complex settings, audio tracks in different languages, and didactic proposals. You can visit it HERE or by clicking on the image.
 

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