I really dig this guy because he's on the ball about changing technologies and their impact on language-learning. Anyway, this is the most recent general writing of his I've found on the topic, and it's accessible, so: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageI...ventId=851

Previous links (some of many, hehe): http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...1#pid40741

My very short summary: Dictionaries are good but they won't tell you everything about words, so google them, google image them, search for them in corpora. Check out this website http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm. Also, someday we might have virtual reality dictionaries that let you touch and smell things.

Costas Gabrielatos on Krashen's method (mini rant):

http://www.gabrielatos.com/HareKrashen.pdf <--nice title

Thora Wrote:Costas Gabrielatos on Krashen's method (mini rant):

http://www.gabrielatos.com/HareKrashen.pdf <--nice title

Ha, I never even saw that before. ;p