Spanish-English picture dictionary
Posted August 15, 2007 · by David · in New on the website
We’ve just published a Spanish-English picture dictionary for teachers of English language learners. It is designed especially for teachers who find unexpectedly that they are teaching students who have recently emigrated from Latin America and speak little or no English. For each term, a clear photograph or illustration is captioned in both Spanish and English, and the terms are organized around classroom needs — objects in the classroom, verbs for teaching and learning, places in the school, parts of the body, and so on.
Developed by J. D. Alexander, a graduate student at UNC-Chapel Hill, the dictionary is available for now in PDF format. We hope to build a web-based version and corresponding print edition over the coming year. If you have comments or suggestions as we plan the new edition, please let us know. And please let us know especially if you use this dictionary with your students; your (and their) feedback is crucial to our development process!
You can download the PDF from our multimedia library.
Thank you for writing this picture dictionary. I will use it with my student who recently moved here from Mexico. I have some resources, but this will be a great addition for times when I am giving direct instruction that will be too much for him to try and understand. He is learning English rapidly as he is in total immersion all day, with another student interpreting as needed. Thanks again. I can use this tommorrow.