The Teaching of Dictionary Use to Multilingual Groups: Traditional (Print) versus Online Dictionaries

• Authors: OSUCHOWSKA DOROTA
• Languages of publication: PL EN SK CS

Abstracts

EN

Research into dictionary use has demonstrated that students from various national settings differ in the amount of user training they receive. Teachers who work with multilingual groups can try to mitigate the negative effects of this lack of training, but such an endeavor presupposes knowing exactly what skills are needed to handle a dictionary and whether the skills required for traditional print dictionaries differ from those necessary when students avail themselves of dictionaries available online.

Keywords

EN

print and online dictionaries multilingual groups; user training

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Rzeszowski
• Journal: Edukacja-Technika-Informatyka
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 397-402

Dates

published

2018

Contributors

author

OSUCHOWSKA DOROTA

• Professor extraordinary (post-doctoral degree), University of Rzeszów, Department of Philology, Institute of English Studies, Translation Theory Section, Rzeszów, Poland

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