Alinea Suite – dictionary application

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alinea Suite’s “Look Up” Windows application

This is a photograph taken in a school library. In the foreground to the right is a teenager sitting at a very small desk with a tablet device in one hand and a set of blue headphones around his neck. He has dark hair and is smiling directly at the camera. Moving backwards, the photograph loses focus but shows a blonde haired girl roughly of ten years old. She has white headphones around her neck and along with a long haired lady sat next to her. Behind them is an increasingly less focused set of two bookcases. End of description.Easily accessed via the alinea Suite PDF reading, and word prediction applications, the dictionary application includes the following Harper Collins dictionaries:

  • English UK,
  • US English,
  • English to German
  • English to French.

There is also a picture dictionary that can be edited, an invaluable tool for teachers and parents.
To demonstrate the dictionary, we have used two homophones – flower and flour. Sounding the same, but having a different meaning and a different spelling, homophones can pose difficulty for many dyslexic and ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) learners.  
 Using one of the text-to-speech voices included with alinea Suite’s Windows application, the below videos show alinea Suite’s Harper Colins dictionary application giving the definition of flower, then flour.   https://youtu.be/YfLWIFykdJA

 

Now for the word flour….

https://youtu.be/dIaVBvv6N_w

For those requiring further support, the picture dictionary is also available, and can be edited via Alinea’s glossary.

To demonstrate this, I edited the glossary’s entry for the word flour as there was no picture dictionary entry.  

The dictionary definition for the word flour which is spelled f l o u r. The image button has been clicked and there is a picture of two hands cupped together holding white flour. The hands are poised over a stainless steel mixing bowl full of white flour. End of description.

To give maximum support, the alinea Suite dictionary application can be accessed:

 
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Page created: 07 February 2023
Last updated: 24 April 2024