A case for bilingual learners' dictionaries.

Autor/inn/en	Lew, Robert; Adamska-Salaciak, Arleta
Titel	A case for bilingual learners' dictionaries.
Quelle	In: ELT journal, 69 (2015) 1, S. 47-57 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Anhang; Anmerkungen 2; Tabellen 1
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-8290; 0307-8337; 0951-0893; 1477-4526
DOI	10.1093/elt/ccu038
Schlagwörter	Englisch; Lexikografie; Wörterbuch; Lexikografie; Englisch; Bilingualismus; Wörterbuch
Abstract	This article makes a case for bilingual learners' dictionaries. These dictionaries are very different from traditional bilingual dictionaries, being attuned to the productive needs of learners who are speakers of a specific L1. Although they have been around for some time now, teachers of English remain largely unaware of their benefits (or, possibly, their existence), continuing to promote the one-size-fits-all monolingual English learners' dictionaries (MELDs) as the best choice for their students. As practising lexicographers, the authors cannot fail to appreciate the excellence of the leading MELDs, but, as they try to show, there are important respects in which even the best monolingual dictionary cannot assist a foreign language learner. They also explain why bilingualized dictionaries (adaptations of MELDs) are not a viable alternative to custom-designed bilingual learners' dictionaries when it comes to helping students speak or write in English. The arguments are illustrated by sample entries taken from dictionaries for speakers of Japanese, Polish, and Portuguese learning English; some more examples of bilingual learners' dictionaries for speakers of different languages are given in the Appendix. (Verlag, adapt.).
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Update	2022/2