Description

• Title:
  Dictionary skills in advanced learners’ coursebooks — Materials survey
• Creator:
  Molenda, Marek;
  Kiermasz, Zuzanna
• Contributor:
  Uniwersytet Łódzki;
  Zuzanna Kiermasz is a graduate from Adam Mickiewicz University in Kalisz. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student at the University of Łódź. She is also a member of the PsychoLinguistic Open Team (PLOT) and a tutor in English wRiting Improvement Center (ERIC). Her current interests include the use of L1 in language classroom, language learning strategies, bilingualism, multilingualism, corpus and computational linguistics, teaching writing and working with students with disabilities. Recently she has started working as an English teacher at a state Junior High School in Łódź.;
  Marek Molenda is a Ph.D. student at the University of Łódź. His main research interests are: blended learning/CALL, corpus linguistics, teaching speaking, and, more recently, ESL writing. He is the head of the PsychoLinguistic Open Team (PLOT) and a tutor in English wRiting Improvement Center (ERIC). Some of his recent projects can be found at: http://unilodz.academia.edu/MarekMo-lenda.
• Description:
  Nowadays, almost 65 years after the publication of the first advanced learner’s dictionary, this particular consultation source is considered “a useful addition to any [language] course” (Sharma & Barret, 2007: 52). However, as it was remarked by Leany (2007: 1), the ability to successfully utilize advanced learner’s dictionaries requires a considerable amount of practice on the part of students. Thus, dictionary skills appear to constitute one of the key aspects of EFL education. Therefore, the aim of this article is to identify key dictionary skills and describe how they are promoted in advanced learner’s coursebooks. Following the set of guidelines described in Leany (2007) and Welker (2010), the authors developed criteria that were used to assess the dictionary-oriented contents of selected teaching materials. It is hoped that this article highlights the advantages and exposes the shortcomings of dictionary-oriented materials and activities included in EFL coursebooks.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  © Copyright by Uniwersytet Łódzki, Łódź 2013
• Date:
  2015.12.03;
  2013
• Type:
  Book chapter
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  „PLEJ_2 czyli PsychoLingwistyczne Eksploracje Językowe”, red. O. Majchrzak, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2013;
• Subject:
  EFL;
  monolingual dictionaries;
  learner dictionaries;
  advanced learners;
  educational materials
• Identifier:
  M. Molenda, Z. Kiermasz, Dictionary skills in advanced learners’ coursebooks — Materials survey, [w:] PLEJ_2 czyli PsychoLingwistyczne Eksploracje Językowe”, red. O. Majchrzak, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2013, s. 183-202.;
  978-83-7969-036-7;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/14988
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text