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Future professional dictionary users and their use of dictionaries
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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The Problems Found by the author when conducting Observation are Darul hasanah Islamic Boarding School students feel bored when hey’re learning Arabic, and they’re also less responsive.
Muhammad Ridha +2 more
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Fostering Learners' Online Dictionary Skills through Active Dictionary Rubrics
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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Lemma navigation by excellent secondary school students of Ancient Greek
Under the high cognitive pressure of a translation task, secondary school Classics students often make dictionary mistakes. Research indicates that successful students use a lemma's meta-information to engage in a feedback loop between text and ...
Daniël Bartelds
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The Grievance Dictionary: Understanding threatening language use [PDF]
AbstractThis paper introduces the Grievance Dictionary, a psycholinguistic dictionary that can be used to automatically understand language use in the context of grievance-fueled violence threat assessment. We describe the development of the dictionary, which was informed by suggestions from experienced threat assessment practitioners.
van der Vegt, I +3 more
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Use of Dictionaries and Online Tools for Reading by Thai EFL Learners in a Naturalistic Setting
Dictionaries and online tools are regarded as important tools for finding out the meanings of unknown words or checking the usage of interesting words.
Atipat Boonmoh
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In the past two decades, more and more dictionary usage studies have been published, but most of them deal with questions related to what users appreciate about dictionaries, which dictionaries they use and what type of information they need in specific ...
Carolin Müller-Spitzer +4 more
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Using an Online Dictionary for Identifying the Meanings of Verb Phrases by Chinese EFL Learners
This article reports on the results of a study which investigated the use of an online dictionary by Chinese EFL learners in identifying the meanings of verb phrases.
Lingling Li, Hai Xu
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A Dictionary for Hungarian Varieties Spoken in the Carpathian Basin [PDF]
The Termini Online Hungarian–Hungarian Dictionary and Database describes the lexicon of the Hungarian language as spoken in the countries neighbouring Hungary. It is considered to be a general dictionary of present-day Hungarian.
Tibor M. Pintér +2 more
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Teaching Reference Skills: Does it really Matter?
The article discusses the results of a study at the core of which is the question of whether teaching reference skills really matters – i.e. how useful it is to train students to work with dictionaries.
Monika Kavalir
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