Does the English translation pen help children? What are the advantages and disadvantages?

Nowadays, it is more and more difficult for students to learn, especially English, and there are many new words. Looking up dictionaries one by one not only wastes time, but also interrupts the pace of learning, so there is a translation pen. Is the translation pen helpful for children's study?

Is the translation pen useful for foreign language learning? The solutions to the problem of new words in reading are nothing more than traditional dictionaries, electronic dictionaries, mobile phone translation apps and translation pens. Let's talk about traditional dictionaries first. The traditional paper dictionary is inconvenient to carry, slow to look up words, accounting for more than 70% of the reading time, and inefficient. At present, traditional paper dictionaries are more suitable for people who specialize in learning English and don't need a lot of activities when using them.

Electronic dictionaries have existed for a long time, but not many people carry special electronic dictionaries now. Although it is more convenient than the traditional paper dictionary, it can learn and correct pronunciation by supporting real people's pronunciation, but it is not small. At present, the popular electronic dictionary on the market is mainly based on physical key input, and it needs to be input letter by letter when searching words, which has limited efficiency. The time for searching words accounts for about 50% of the reading time, especially for searching long words such as acquaaintanceship, which takes a long time to enter into the electronic dictionary.

Let's talk about the mobile phone search APP first. There are many mobile phone search apps, and the dictionary thesaurus is mixed. You can manually enter the search method, or you can call the mobile phone camera to scan and search for words. However, after all, the mobile phone camera is not a professional scanning tool, focusing slowly, and it is only suitable for querying some occasional translation scenes in daily life. At the same time, the most important thing is that there are many social software in the mobile phone. When looking up words, the latest news of Aidou suddenly pops up, and then I brush my circle of friends after reading it. This situation has a great influence on learning.

Advantages and disadvantages of translation pen Advantages of translation pen

(1) Save time: Even if you are very familiar with it, it takes at least half a minute to look it up in the dictionary, while the translation pen only takes a few seconds, so it is very convenient to recognize it by scanning it.

(2) Small and portable: the translation pen looks like a relatively small pen, which is very convenient to use and carry. You can always take it with you and learn new words when you see them.

(3) Assisted learning: Nowadays, many translation pens have the functions of listening and reading besides translation, which can read words and sentences, which is helpful to train students' listening and speaking ability and facilitate learning. This picture is provided by the registered user "Jinghu drinker", and the copyright statement is feedback.

Disadvantages of translation pen

(1) Simple translation: Limited by the screen size, the words translated by the translation pen are relatively simple definitions, not as detailed as dictionaries, which may cause misunderstanding.

(2) Form dependence: It is too convenient to use the translation pen, which may make students form dependence. When they see words they don't know, they don't guess the meaning in the context, but translate them directly with a translation pen.

(3) It is not conducive to deepening memory: although you spend time looking up words in the dictionary, you also deepen the impression of words in the process of looking them up, and you may forget them soon after reading them with a translation pen.