8. E-books: reading and vocabulary in foreign language education: secondary educational tools Digita


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A solid school or classroom library with French building work requires not only a lot of money. Often read the works, old and worn books are not inviting our students to read to put. Since the use of e-books change. Not only does it cost the school nothing, moreover, be redundant dictionaries.

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Data is a French memo BVBA (managed by Dr. Dominique Dutoit) that since the early 90s has become a renowned company specializing in machine translation with increasing attention to the semantic analysis.

Besides the many tasks to the private sector, the firm also works regularly with IT projects sent from the university. Thus, the administrator of this application attached to the Université de Caen. Besides the applications to universities and colleges, the company also has a limited supply for the general public. Of their catalog is a small part freely available to Internet users.

The site presents a collection of Memo Data of 182 books from antiquity to the 20th century available. It is very important for the French teacher was surely great 'free' supply of e-books, if the right viewer exists on your PC, open the world of various literary works. Verlaine, Merime, Balzac, Hugo, Zola, Verne, Voltaire, Rabelais, ... are just some of the authors. In addition there are French translations of Shakespeare, Poe and many others available.

On the opening page, the authors of the present e-books listed alphabetically with the number listed next to work.

Who better by title, genre or period to a book anywhere, there may also opt.

In the left of the screen gives the user an overview. It may happen that the list is too big and is so divided. This can be recognized by the red arrow at the bottom. One can also see how many pages the list is spread out. By clicking on the red arrow you can consult the list further. In the right part gets a list of all existing volumes that match the author you had clicked the left.

After selecting the desired story, you get a window that consists of two main parts:

The first section on the left offers the opportunity to work in French, English or German. The text of the book will nevertheless continue in French. There are also additional items click.

Informations asks with general data of the work (title, author, period, genre). Via Signets can be highlighted earlier pages of the story back calls. Who, finally, a summary of the work would call this via Sommaire.

The reader gets when reading the works the opportunity to select an unknown word and meaning from it.

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