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Impact of Dictionary Use Skills Instruction on Second Language Writing

open access: yesStudies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2012
The dictionary is one of the common learning tools for second and foreign language learners. Various types of dictionaries are used to help learners work on their language development.
Chikako Takahashi
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What Web Ads, Blurbs and Introductions Tell Potential Dictionary Buyers about Users, User Needs and Lexicographic Functions

open access: yesHermes, 2012
The present article deals with an investigation aimed at establishing the extent to which existing dictionaries provide potential dictionary buyers/borrowers with clear, unmistakable and easily understandable information about user need situations that ...
Birger Andersen
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Macrostructural Treatment of Multi-word Lexical Items

open access: yesELOPE, 2011
The paper discusses the macrostructural treatment of multi-word lexical items in mono- and bilingual dictionaries. First, the classification of multi-word lexical items is presented, and special attention is paid to the discussion of compounds – a ...
Alenka Vrbinc
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Affiner la description des termes dans les dictionnaires généraux : l’apport d’un corpus de vulgarisation

open access: yesLexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2010
The aim of the paper is to show how useful a popular-science corpus can be to improve the inventory and description of terminological units in general-purpose dictionaries.
Amélie Josselin-Leray
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Gender in Slovenian Monolingual General Explanatory Dictionaries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
In this paper, we focus on gender as a grammatical and social category in Slovenian monolingual general explana tory dictionaries and explain how the category of gender influences the selection and presentation of data included in Slovenian explanatory ...
Michelizza, Mija, Ledinek, Nina
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Sethantšo sa Sesotho and Sesuto–English Dictionar: A Comparative Analysis of their Designs and Entries

open access: yesLexikos, 2020
This article seeks to establish the relationship and extent of similarity between two Sesotho dictionaries, published in the 1800s and 2005 respectively. The two dictionaries under discussion are the Sesuto–English Dictionary by Mabille and Dieterlen and
T.L. Motjope-Mokhali   +2 more
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Compiling a Monolingual Dictionary for Native Speakers

open access: yesLexikos, 2011
This article gives a survey of the main issues confronting the compilers of monolingual dictionaries in the age of the Internet. Among others, it discusses the relationship between a lexical database and a monolingual dictionary, the role of corpus evidence, historical principles in lexicography vs.
openaire   +4 more sources

State-of-the-art on monolingual lexicography for Greece (EL)

open access: yesSlovenščina 2.0: Empirične, aplikativne in interdisciplinarne raziskave, 2019
The authors report on a recent survey on monolingual dictionaries available on the Greek market. General dictionaries outnumber spelling and educational ones and enjoy a prestigious status.
Stella Markantonatou, Voula Giouli
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Metalinguistic Awareness in the EFL Classroom and Beyond: Exploring the Potential of Translation Tasks

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Current trends encouraging a move away from monolingual teaching have sparked a renewed interest in the role of translation in language instruction. Yet, there are few theoretically and empirically grounded proposals regarding specific uses of translation in the language classroom.
Monika Bader   +2 more
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Criteria for Selecting a Monolingual Dictionary for Learners [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
P(論文)There are a bewildering number of monolingual dictionaries on the market in Japan, including new learner dictionaries which give students a great deal of potentially useful information about how to use words.
1818, Rogers, Colin
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