CALL Review I : Teaching Vocabulary with "Glossary Maker"

 I was introduced many CALL tools which could be used in vocabulary learning and teaching, and  I will review one of them in this posting. It is in the website called "Wordsmyth” (http://www.wordsmyth.net/) which provides various useful tools for you. The chief reason that I chose it as subject of this review is its easiness and simplicity for using. in real public schools’ classroom context. After reading this review, you will understand why I thought like that.
 
 From now on, I will introduce details of the tool. Loot at the pictures. These pictures will show you how to use it and what result you can get.

 If you have finished the five steps, then click the "next", then you will see this page.
In this page, check every definitions that you want to include in your final glossary. Plural choice is available for one word. If you finished, click the next botton.

Then you will see your own glossary. You can print it or save it on your computer.

 Isn't it very simple? With few clicks you can have nice glossary that can be handed out to students without any extra modification. You can type the title of your glossary, and it can be something like "Lesseon 3", "Chapter 3", or "a category of words". You also can choose the level of it. According to your selection of level, definitions of words will be shown differently. In addition, you can select 11 options (look at the first picture) for the glossary. It is selecting what to contain or not. Depending on your needs, check the items.
 
 Anyway, noteworthy feature of this tool is that you can choose definitions of a word. You can contain just one definition or plural definitions for a word. Why is this noteworthy? It is because there are few words which have only one definition, and that means students need to know the various meanings of a word. Although, some definitions in a word are related semantically but others are not. This could be serious problem in a learning process. However, we tend to ignore other meanings of a word, so just memorize only one meaning that we need to know to read a specific sentence. This is truly a problem. Therefore, with this option, you can make your students study various meanings of a word.
 
 This glossary can function as introduction of a chapter. Before entering in the chapter, you can help your student to learn what new words means by using its hand-out version. When learner faces strange word that they have never seen, they can feel little frustration, and it can make them demotivated. Thus, with such warming-up, we can prevent such happening.

 Lastly, I will show you its practical usages in learning. It is good to hand it out in that glossary form, but for more active engagement of students in learning, you can make it into these forms. Look at the pictures. 

 And then, follow the steps as shown above. Then you can have these results. The first picture is "Matching Quiz" form, and the second is "Multiple Choice Quiz" form.
 

 When a chapter finished, you can use this hand-out as a test. The test can be reminder of what students learned in the chapter. Students can check what they acquired or not by themselves.