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Anthropocentrism in monolingual English learners’ dictionaries – Revisited

Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Heuberger 2003 analyzed monolingual English (learners’) dictionaries with regard to anthropocentrism, an ideology that regards nature primarily from the viewpoint of its usefulness to human beings. Focusing on reference works published in the mid-1990s, that article identified strong anthropocentric biases concerning animals within definitions.
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Fixed Phrases in Monolingual Learners’ Dictionaries

1992
Learning a second language involves familiarising oneself with at least part of its vocabulary and learning to apply the rules of its grammar. This means that a great many lexical elements have to be learnt by heart: the L2 student has to get acquainted with words and fixed phrases.
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Challenging Monolingual Ways of Looking at Multilingualism: Insights for Curriculum Development in Teacher Preparation

Journal of Language, Identity and Education, 2021
Sandro R Barros, Lisa M Domke, Carrie Symons   +2 more
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Monolingual Dictionaries

2019
Wajahat Abbasi, Mudassar Mahmood Ahmad, Elhussien, Faiza Abdalla   +2 more
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On Monolingual Dictionaries and Child Language Development

Lagos Notes and Records, 2012
Amfani (2008) ignites a very interesting child language development debate. He argues that "… colonial interference in the natural affairs of Africans has been the major factor responsible for the type of communication disorder he refers to as 'lexical starvation' experienced by the modern African child with respect to the acquisition of the ...
Yuka, LC, Okolocha, HO
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Monolingual Dictionary Semantic Capturing Using Concept Lattice

International Review on Computers and Software, 2011
This paper proposes an approach for retrieving semantic relationships between semantic units in a monolingual dictionary. The presented approach is based on the usage of formal concept analysis (FCA) technique for determining semantic relations and hierarchy in a set of words extracted from dictionary.
Čubrilo, Mirko, Meštrović, Ana
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English monolingual learners' dictionaries

System, 1992
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Co-learning in the High School English Class through Translanguaging: Emergent Bilingual Newcomers and Monolingual Teachers

Journal of Language, Identity and Education, 2021
Holly Hansen-Thomas, Mary Amanda Stewart
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In praise of monolingual English Dictionaries

2012
The present article briefly reviews milestones in the development of monolingual dictionaries, pointing out the turning point brought about by the advent of corpora, and delves into certain features of contemporary dictionaries, such as dictionaries of collocations for learners which can help unlock the mysteries of English as a language.
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The Impact of Online Monolingual and Bilingual Dictionaries on Vocabulary Learning

SLIIT Journal of Humanities and Sciences, 2022
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