Using Dictionaries : : Studies of Dictionary Use by Language Learners and Translators / / ed. by B.T. Sue Atkins.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Ahmad, Khurshid,; Atkins, Β. T. Sue,; Atkins, Β. Τ. Sue,; Bogaards, Paul,; Hulstijn, Jan H.,; Mackintosh, Kristen,; Nesi, Hilary,; Rogers, Margaret,; Varantola, Krista,; Varatitela, Krista,
• HerausgeberIn: Atkins, B.T. Sue,
• Place / Publishing House: Tübingen : : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , [2015]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Lexicographica. Series Maior : Supplementbände zum Internationalen Jahrbuch für Lexikographie , 88
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 p.) :; Zahlr. Abb.

This volume draws together highly detailed studies of how dictionaries are used by different types of users, from school students to senior professors, working with a foreign language with the help of different types of dictionaries, from monolingual dictionaries for native speakers of the foreign language, through bilingual dictionaries, to monolingual dictionaries in the language of the user. The tasks being carried out include L2--L1 translation, L1--L2 translation, L2 comprehension, self-expression in L2, and various project-specific linguistic exercises. The authors have tried to include enough detail to allow readers to replicate the tests, and adapt them to serve their own interests.

This volume draws together highly detailed studies of how dictionaries are used by different types of users, from school students to senior professors, working with a foreign language with the help of different types of dictionaries, from monolingual dictionaries for native speakers of the foreign language, through bilingual dictionaries, to monolingual dictionaries in the language of the user. The tasks being carried out include L2-L1 translation, L1-L2 translation, L2 comprehension, self-expression in L2, and various project-specific linguistic exercises. The authors have tried to include enough detail to allow readers to replicate the tests, and adapt them to serve their own interests.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Empirical research on dictionary use in foreign-language learning: survey and discussion -- Language Learners Using dictionaries: The Final Report on the EURALEX / AILA Research Project on Dictionary Use -- Monitoring Dictionaiy Use -- An Empirical Study of Dictionary Use in L2-L1 Translation -- What type of words do language learners look up? -- Defining a Shoehorn: the Success of Learners' Dictionary Entries for Concrete Nouns -- Translators and their Use of Dictionaries: User Needs and User Habits -- The Translator and The Dictionaiy: Beyond Words? -- Résumés -- Zusammenfassungen -- Notes on Contributors