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The Dictionary Use at the University of Kufa: A Case Study [PDF]
آداب الكوفة, 2008 It seems self- evident that dictionary consultation constitutes an important stage in the process of language learning. Dictionaries provide students with valuable information in all aspects of language.
hudaa hatab, Hudaa Hattab
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Can dictionary consultation during reading be improved?
Advancing CALL: New research agendas - EUROCALL 2025 Short PapersWhile many ELT websites continue to promote contextual guessing as the preferred strategy for understanding unfamiliar words, there is limited evidence that this practice outperforms dictionary use for vocabulary comprehension. Moreover, nowadays, learners reading from their screens can instantly access definitions through search bars or clickable text,
Geraint Paul Rees +1 more
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Future professional dictionary users and their use of dictionaries
Acta Neophilologica, 2005 The article presents the results of a study on dictionary use by students of English who are to become professional dictionary users. The first part of the article gives information on test subjects, their knowledge of English and their dictionary habits.
Marjeta Vrbinc, Alenka Vrbinc
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Namibian University Entrants' Concepts of 'a Dictionary'
Lexikos, 2011 <p>ABSTRACT: This article reports on a survey conducted in 2009 among students registering for their first year of study at the University of Namibia.
Herman L. Beyer, André K. Faul
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Lexikos, 2017 This study examined the teachability of collocations through cultivating EFL learners' collocation dictionary skills. Fifty-nine EFL college students participated in the study, and they received two 75-minute instructions between pre- and post-tests: one
Sugene Kim
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INTEGRATING CORPUS CONSULTATION IN LANGUAGE STUDIES [PDF]
Language Learning and Technology, 2005 Alongside developments in language research, the potential of corpora as a resource in language learning and teaching has been evident to researchers and teachers since the late 1960s.
Angela Chambers
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Comparing Dictionary-induced Vocabulary Learning and Inferencing in the Context of Reading
Lexikos, 2016 This research examines dictionary-induced vocabulary learning and inferencing in the context of reading. One hundred and four intermediate English learners completed one of two word-focused tasks: reading comprehension and dictionary consultation, and ...
Di Zou
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Treatment of Personal Gender-indexing Nouns in the Ninth Edition of Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English [PDF]
Ziglôbitha: The need to promote and use gender-inclusive language has been on an increase quite recently and has led to the coinage of epicenes throughout the English speech community, particularly in the [+ personal} nominal subclass.
Francis Ngoyi Créqui TSHIMANGA
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature, 2013 Looking up unfamiliar words and writing their meanings in the margin of the texts is a common lexical processing strategy which serves to comprehension and retention of words’ meanings when reading English academic textbooks. This study investigated words in academic textbooks looked up by Iranian university TEFL students in hopes of throwing light on ...
Mohammad Hassan Tahririan, Elham Sadri
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E-dictionary Use under the Spotlight: Students' Use of Pocket Electronic Dictionaries for Writing
Lexikos, 2012 This article reports on the utilisation of pocket electronic dictionaries (PEDs) for writing by learners of English at a Thai university. It aims to enrich the study of dictionary use behaviour by investigating, through the use of combined research ...
Atipat Boonmoh
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