Though you probably have n’t had to analyze for a vocabulary test in the recent past , you might still think back how it feel to read an unnamed word and institutionalize its definition to memory . Even if you bring home the bacon in memorizing the meaning , it ’s difficult to really understand how to utilise it without context .
To make it easier on student in kindergarten through 12th class , speech - oral communication pathologists Deena Seifert and Beth Lawrence have machinate an app calledInferCabulary , which pairs vocabularywordswith audio recording and visuals that show how the Scripture can be used in various scenarios . According toWBAL - TV , they call their precept method semantic logical thinking , because it gives students an opportunity to deform their decisive thinking skills to deduce the meaning of a term .
The app prove you four images — each attach to by a caption that you could toy aloud — and inquire you to choose the word ( from a list of four ) that right fit the images . For example , the wordbuoyancyis the right response for the four images captioned as follows : “ Swans glide easily on top of the water , ” “ The red lifesaver floats in the water , ” “ The lily pads seem to bulk large over the water , ” and “ Because beach globe float , they make dear pool toys . ” Once you choosebuoyancy , you ’re given its definition ( “ the ability to float on or in the piss ” ) .
Seifert and Lawrence originally intend InferCabulary to be an educational learning dick for pupil with specific erudition challenge , but Seifert evidence WBAL - TV that “ classroom teacher were using it with every student in the schoolroom … especially the middle tyke who are struggling but do n’t get any religious service . ” Towson University and Google are both support the Baltimore - based project .
Educators are n’t the only one back InferCabulary — students eff it , too . Keegan Nolan , a seventh grader at Calvert School in Baltimore , told WBAL - TV that “ it ’s a really skilful touch because I get to yarn-dye my teacher with … big words . ”
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