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Exploring the effect of lexical inferencing and dictionary consultation on undergraduate EFL students' vocabulary acquisition. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 This study compares how lexical inferencing and dictionary consultation affect L2 vocabulary acquisition. Sixty-one L1 Arabic undergraduates majoring in English language read target words in semi-authentic English reading materials and were either asked ...
Alaa Alahmadi, Anouschka Foltz
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Expectation Levels in Dictionary Consultation and Compilation
Lexikos, 2013 Dictionary consultation and compilation is a two-way engagement between two parties, namely a dictionary user and a lexicographer. How well users cope with looking up words in a Bantu language dictionary and to what extent their expectations are met ...
Inge Kosch
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DICO: An Online Dictionary Consultation Tool
Digital Studies, 1996 None
Rob Kling
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Fostering Learners' Online Dictionary Skills through Active Dictionary Rubrics
Lexikos, 2021 This article aims to explore new ways to improve dictionary skills for language learners by promoting the use of active dictionary rubrics. It also tries to get a deeper understanding on how students perceive dictionaries before and after this type of ...
Mari Carmen Campoy-Cubillo
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AUTOMATIC ASSESSMENT TO ENHANCE ONLINE DICTIONARIES CONSULTATION SKILLS [PDF]
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2019), 2019 We live in a digital world and our students are surrounded by technologies: it is essential that they learn how to use the digital tools available for education purposes. As for language teaching, among the most recent technologies we can find online dictionaries.
Carla Marello +3 more
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Lexikos, 2011 <p>Zusammenfassung: Nach kurzen Hinweisen zum Begriff des Wörterbuchtyps werden diezentralen Probleme der lexikographischen Versorgung bezüglich der deutschen Fachsprache imFachgebietsverbund „Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft“ kurz ...
Herbert Ernst Wiegand
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Millennials as Dictionary Users: A Study of Dictionary Use Habits of Serbian EFL Students
SAGE Open, 2021 The article addresses the use of dictionaries among the new millennium generation of English as a foreign language (EFL) undergraduates. Applying the mixed-method approach (a questionnaire and interviews), the study examines the frequency of dictionary ...
Ljiljana Knežević +3 more
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Replication Study on Dictionary Consultation
Studies About Languages, 2013 The aim of the paper is twofold: 1) to investigate studies on dictionary use and 2) to compare the results of two surveys relating to students’ preferences and habits of dictionary use conducted in 2007 and 2012. An overview of studies on dictionaries comprises literature on dictionary types (both electronic and printed) and the comparison of ...
Petrylaitė, Regina +2 more
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The Use of Pocket Electronic Dictionaries by Thai University Students
Lexikos, 2011 <p>ABSTRACT: This article reports on a small-scale study of Thai-speaking learners using pocket electronic dictionaries (PEDs) to read an English news article. It investigates how the subjects use their PEDs for reading comprehension.
Atipat Boonmoh
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Lexikos, 2022 This article focuses on various aspects regarding contextualization when e-texts are linked to integrated dictionaries. The article responds to a twofold problem statement: (1) Dictionaries linked to e-texts do not sufficiently take into account the contextualization and cotextualization of words when providing information to users.
Bothma, T. J. D. (Theodorus Jan Daniël) +1 more
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