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Who is sharpest at looking up sharp? : comparing two parallel groups of dictionary users
ID Vrbinc, Marjeta (Author), ID Farina, Donna M. T. Cr. (Author), ID Vrbinc, Alenka (Author)

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Abstract
This article is a comparison of two previous research studies (Farina et al. 2019; Vrbinc et al. in press), both of which examined the dictionary look-up behaviors of two very different cohorts of undergraduate students from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. At the time the two original and parallel look-up studies were carried out, one cohort was majoring in business and economics in the School of Economics and Business and the other was majoring in English in the Faculty of Arts. The previously published work reports on how, in both groups, participants were given nine contexts containing a clearly marked common English word used in an infrequent and often unknown sense; they had to locate the relevant sense related to a given context in an unknown-to-them learner's dictionary, The Britannica Dictionary. The participants were asked to think aloud as they looked up words; the researchers observed and recorded their approaches and problems. Prior to, during, and after the look-up process, the members of these two cohorts responded to fourteen questions about their habits of dictionary use and their perceptions of the utility and quality of definitions and illustrative examples that they encountered. This article contrasting the two studies indicates that the look-up proficiency of the two groups differed significantly.

Language:English
Keywords:bilingual dictionary, context, cotext, descriptions of functions, examples of use, grammatical differences, lexical differences, lexico-grammatical differences, pragmatic senses, zero equivalence, dictionary user, advanced english learner, learner's dictionary, dictionary awareness, look-up behavior, quality of definition, quality of examples
Work type:Article
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:FF - Faculty of Arts
EF - School of Economics and Business
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Year:2022
Number of pages:Str. 368-391
Numbering:Vol. 32
PID:20.500.12556/RUL-144748 This link opens in a new window
UDC:811.111'374.8
ISSN on article:2224-0039
DOI:10.5788/32-1-1750 This link opens in a new window
COBISS.SI-ID:131228163 This link opens in a new window
Publication date in RUL:10.03.2023
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Title:Lexikos
Shortened title:Lexikos
Publisher:Buro van die WAT
ISSN:2224-0039
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License:CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Secondary language

Language:Slovenian
Keywords:dvojezični slovarji, sobesedilo, kotekst, opisi funkcij, primeri rabe, slovnične razlike, leksikalne razlike, leksikogramatične razlike, pragmatični pomeni, ničta ustreznost

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Funder:ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
Project number:BI-US/17-18-033

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