The Use And Abuse Of Efl Dictionaries
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The Use and Abuse of EFL Dictionaries
Author | : Hilary Nesi |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2012-02-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110946031 |
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The book begins with a review of research into dictionary use. A number of experimental design problems are discussed, in particular the unreliability of questionnaire responses, and the need for detailed accounts of individual dictionary consultations whilst sampling in numbers sufficient to represent specified populations. The experiments reported in subsequent chapters investigate issues raised in the review. The first two studies find that dictionary use during a reading comprehension test affected completion speed but not test scores. The apparent failure of dictionary use to improve comprehension is attributed to the test itself, the dictionaries, and the users' choice of look-up words. The ability of users to interpret dictionary entries is investigated in three further studies which use computers to gather data on large numbers of individual consultations. The findings indicate that there is little difference between three major EFL dictionaries in terms of speed of consultation and overall productive success. They also indicate that Malaysian ESL subjects, who have higher vocabulary scores, are slower in their reading and less successfull in their interpretation of entries than Portuguese EFL subjects. Finally, the findings suggest that overall productive success is unaffected by the presence or absence of examples. The experimental findings lead to the conclusion that dictionary consultation is a process in which users match pre-existing beliefs about word meaning and behaviour against segments in the dictionary entry. Such segments are often selected because they are familiar-sounding and conceptually accessible, but may contain only incomplete or non-essential information. Where pre-existing beliefs and dictionary information conflict, dictionary information is sometimes overridden. Thus word knowledge acquired from a single consultation is often insufficient to ensure productive success. Although it is probably inevitable that word knowledge will be acquired slowly, through multiple encounters, modifications to the dictionary entry and the training of users might help to avoid serious misinterpretation of dictionary information.
The Use and Abuse of EFL Dictionaries
Author | : Hilary Nesi |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN | : OCLC:502644578 |
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Lexicography Dictionaries compilers critics and users
Author | : R. R. K. Hartmann |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0415253667 |
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Better Words
Author | : Gabriele Stein |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : UOM:39015056945531 |
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Better Words provides an introduction to EFL lexicography and an insight into its fundamental issues and problems. It describes in detail the major changes that have occurred in the production of EFL dictionaries over recent decades and will help teachers and their students to assess the description of the word stock on offer and to decide which EFL dictionary is the most adequate for their specific purposes. During the last twenty-five years lexicographers and their publishers have experimented with new ways of describing and presenting the words included in their EFL dictionaries to make them more accessible to users. This book compares these dictionaries and critically reviews the lexicographal achievements in the description and presentation of word meanings, registers, exemplification, cultural contexts and pictorial illustrations. It also examines the advantages and disadvantages of using a bilingual and a monolingual EFL dictionary. Better Words is a companion volume to Chosen Words: Past and Present Problems for Dictionary Makers by Noel Osselton (1995) and Living Words: Language, Lexicography and the Knowledge Revolution by Tom McArthur (1998). Both are published by University of Exeter Press in the series Exeter Language and Lexicography. The general editors of this series are Reinhard Hartmann and Tom McArthur.
Research on Dictionary Use in the Context of Foreign Language Learning
Author | : Yukio Tono |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2012-05-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110915013 |
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The purpose of this book is to conceptualise the research on dictionary use within a more general overview of language learning. It brings together some of the findings of studies on dictionary users and uses and shows how research into dictionary use can contribute to the improvement of dictionary design and the clarification of issues in language learning. The book also provides reports on a series of empirical studies on dictionary use in decoding activities (reading comprehension and L2/L1 translation) , which will shed some light on the nature of the issues discussed throughout the book. The book falls into two parts. Part I, »Research on Dictionary Use - State of the Art« is, as its title suggests, a summary of previous studies to tease out relevant issues in each area of inquiry. Part 2, »Empirical Studies« reports on a series of studies the author has conducted in the past 15 years. The first three studies (Chapter 5, 6, and 7) investigate dictionary use in the broader context of language learning. The next four studies (Chapter 8, 9, 10 and 11) report on a series of controlled experiments on the relationship between the macro- and microstructure of the dictionary and reference skills. Finally, the last two chapters (Chapter 12 and 13) report the use of learner language data for a better lexicographical output.
Dictionary Visions Research and Practice
Author | : Henrik Gottlieb,Jens Erik Mogensen |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027223343 |
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Dictionaries An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography
Author | : Rufus Gouws,Ulrich Heid,Wolfgang Schweickard,Herbert Ernst Wiegand |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 1592 |
Release | : 2013-12-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110238136 |
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The basis for this additional volume are the three volumes of the handbooks Dictionaries. An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography (HSK 5.1–5.3), published between 1989 and 1991. An updating has been perceived as an important desideratum for a considerable time. In the present Supplementary Volume the premises and subjects of HSK 5.1–5.3 are complemented by new articles that take account of the practice-internal and theoretical developments of the last 15 years. Special attention has been given to the following topics: the status and function of lexicographic reference works, the history of lexicography, the theory of lexicography, lexicographic processes, lexicographic training and lexicographic institutions, new metalexicographic methods, electronic and, especially, computer-assisted lexicography.
Which dictionary for whom
Author | : Robert Lew |
Publsiher | : Robert Lew |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9788387314422 |
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