A research-based study of foreign students' use of grammatical codes in five leading British learners' dictionaries

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  • Marjeta Vrbinc University of Ljubljana
  • Alenka Vrbinc University of Ljubljana

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https://doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.46.1.227-242

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A research-based study of foreign students' use of grammatical codes in five leading British learners' dictionaries

Abstract

Grammatical codes are one of several ways of including grammar in learners' dictionaries. In our research we focussed on the usability and user-friendliness of learners' dictionaries as regards grammatical information. The results presented and discussed in this article are based on answers obtained by a questionnaire that tested the understanding of codes found in five leading British monolingual learners' dictionaries and the success of the explanations of the same codes provided in the front matter of each dictionary. The results are presented by dictionaries and by codes. The most important finding of this research is that the understanding of the code and thus its usefulness depends on the code itself rather than on the dictionary.

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Published

01.12.2006

How to Cite

Vrbinc, M., & Vrbinc, A. (2006). A research-based study of foreign students’ use of grammatical codes in five leading British learners’ dictionaries. Linguistica, 46(1), 227–242. https://doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.46.1.227-242

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