Advanced Cantonese ESL Learners' Use of a Monolingual Dictionary for Language Production

This article reports on the results of a research study which investigated the use of monolingual dictionaries by Hong Kong advanced Cantonese ESL learners in the production of target language sentences. Thirty-one English majors participated in a sentence completion task and a sentence construction...

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Autor principal:	Alice Y.W. Chan
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Lenguaje:	AF DE EN FR NL
Publicado:	Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WAT 2012
Materias:	lexicography monolingual dictionaries dictionary use dictionary consultation usefulness of dictionaries language production sentence completion sentence construction cantonese esl learners problems encountered contexts given Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844 Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages PD1-7159
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:4f4474ce1bb3452d9cc71a1e3f9e52932021-12-03T06:32:32ZAdvanced Cantonese ESL Learners' Use of a Monolingual Dictionary for Language Production10.5788/22-1-10002224-0039https://doaj.org/article/4f4474ce1bb3452d9cc71a1e3f9e52932012-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1000https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0039This article reports on the results of a research study which investigated the use of monolingual dictionaries by Hong Kong advanced Cantonese ESL learners in the production of target language sentences. Thirty-one English majors participated in a sentence completion task and a sentence construction task with and without the help of a monolingual dictionary. In the sentence completion task, a full Chinese context and a partial English context were given, whereas in the sentence construction task, only a few English prompts were given. Different self-reporting protocols, including introspective questionnaires, retrospective questionnaires and think-aloud recordings, and a post-task focus-group interview were conducted to tap into the participants' thinking processes during dictionary consultation. The results show that a monolingual dictionary is useful in helping learners produce target language sentences, yet learners encounter different kinds of consultation problems, some of which are related to their general use of dictionaries and others to the language in which their thinking processes are engaged. It is suggested that ESL learners use both monolingual and bilingualized dictionaries in their learning and that ESL teachers design dictionary skills training programs which take into account learners' linguistic competence and actual consultation problems.Alice Y.W. ChanWoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WATarticlelexicographymonolingual dictionariesdictionary usedictionary consultationusefulness of dictionarieslanguage productionsentence completionsentence constructioncantonese esl learnersproblems encounteredcontexts givenPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844Germanic languages. Scandinavian languagesPD1-7159AFDEENFRNLLexikos, Vol 22, Pp 109-138 (2012)
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topic	lexicography monolingual dictionaries dictionary use dictionary consultation usefulness of dictionaries language production sentence completion sentence construction cantonese esl learners problems encountered contexts given Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844 Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages PD1-7159
spellingShingle	lexicography monolingual dictionaries dictionary use dictionary consultation usefulness of dictionaries language production sentence completion sentence construction cantonese esl learners problems encountered contexts given Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844 Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages PD1-7159 Alice Y.W. Chan Advanced Cantonese ESL Learners' Use of a Monolingual Dictionary for Language Production
description	This article reports on the results of a research study which investigated the use of monolingual dictionaries by Hong Kong advanced Cantonese ESL learners in the production of target language sentences. Thirty-one English majors participated in a sentence completion task and a sentence construction task with and without the help of a monolingual dictionary. In the sentence completion task, a full Chinese context and a partial English context were given, whereas in the sentence construction task, only a few English prompts were given. Different self-reporting protocols, including introspective questionnaires, retrospective questionnaires and think-aloud recordings, and a post-task focus-group interview were conducted to tap into the participants' thinking processes during dictionary consultation. The results show that a monolingual dictionary is useful in helping learners produce target language sentences, yet learners encounter different kinds of consultation problems, some of which are related to their general use of dictionaries and others to the language in which their thinking processes are engaged. It is suggested that ESL learners use both monolingual and bilingualized dictionaries in their learning and that ESL teachers design dictionary skills training programs which take into account learners' linguistic competence and actual consultation problems.
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title	Advanced Cantonese ESL Learners' Use of a Monolingual Dictionary for Language Production
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Advanced Cantonese ESL Learners' Use of a Monolingual Dictionary for Language Production

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