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

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 l...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (214 p.) :; Zahlr. Abb.
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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