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How Effective is the Electronic Dictionary in Sense Discrimination?
| العنوان: | How Effective is the Electronic Dictionary in Sense Discrimination? |
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| المؤلفون: | Kim Hua Tan |
| المصدر: | Lexikos, Vol 19 (2011) |
| بيانات النشر: | Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WAT |
| سنة النشر: | 2011 |
| المجموعة: | Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | EFFICACY, ACTUAL EFFICACY, SELF-PERCEIVED EFFICACY, ELECTRONIC DICTIONARIES, PRINTED DICTIONARIES, POLYSEMOUS WORDS, Philology. Linguistics, P1-1091, Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania, PL1-8844, Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages, PD1-7159 |
| الوصف: | This article compares the efficacy of the electronic dictionary with that of the print dictionary in helping learners differentiate senses of polysemous words in dictionaries. An adaptation of the mixed methodology proposed by Johnson and Christensen (2004), the research design in this article encompasses a qualitative phase and a quantitative phase in the overall research study along the dimensions of time order and paradigm emphasis. The element of 'comparison' is included resulting in a design of four paired com-parison groups: (1) Groupe-pre and Groupp-pre, (2) Groupe and Groupp, (3) Groupe-without and Groupe-with, and (4) Groupe-withoutLowMed and Groupe-withLowMed. Findings show that the electronic dictionary is effective in helping Low to Medium Proficient students (Groupe-LowMed) in the electronic group after deliberate dictionary training in navigation and windows switching. This is indicated by improved scores regarding time taken (efficacy rate) and a significant correlation between actual efficacy and self-perceived efficacy. The results imply that dictionary users need to be given dictionary training based on specific problems they face. As a whole, how-ever, the print dictionary group has higher efficacy than the electronic group but there was no discernible trend in the relationship between its actual efficacy and the self-perceived efficacy for both groups. This sug-gests that subjects' perceived efficacy beliefs are not good predictors of their performances. Keywords: EFFICACY, ACTUAL EFFICACY, SELF-PERCEIVED EFFICACY, ELECTRONIC DICTIONARIES, PRINTED DICTIONARIES, POLYSEMOUS WORDS Opsomming: Hoe doeltreffend is die elektroniese woordeboek by bete-kenisonderskeiding? Hierdie artikel vergelyk die doeltreffendheid van die elektroniese woordeboek met dié van die gedrukte woordeboek om aanleerders te help om die betekenisse van polisemiese woorde in woordeboeke te onderskei. Die navorsingsontwerp in hierdie artikel wat 'n aanpassing van die gemengde metodologie voorgestel deur Johnson en ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | Afrikaans German English French Dutch; Flemish |
| تدمد: | 1684-4904 2224-0039 |
| العلاقة: | http://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/439Test; https://doaj.org/toc/1684-4904Test; https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0039Test; https://doaj.org/article/b73015bb6bd84eee9870a8a5e3156911Test |
| DOI: | 10.5788/19--439 |
| الإتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.5788/19--439Test https://doaj.org/article/b73015bb6bd84eee9870a8a5e3156911Test |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.A2D65D68 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| تدمد: | 16844904 22240039 |
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| DOI: | 10.5788/19--439 |