Bilingualized Dictionaries with Special Reference to the Chinese EFL Context

As a type of dictionary with huge popularity among EFL learners in China, the bilingualized dictionary (BLD) deserves more academic and pedagogical attention than it receives nowadays. This article gives an overview of the BLD within the framework of dictionary research, including dictionary history...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:85b409d4a7614cea9e670acc954741c82021-12-03T06:35:24ZBilingualized Dictionaries with Special Reference to the Chinese EFL Context10.5788/22-1-10011684-49042224-0039https://doaj.org/article/85b409d4a7614cea9e670acc954741c82012-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1001https://doaj.org/toc/1684-4904https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0039As a type of dictionary with huge popularity among EFL learners in China, the bilingualized dictionary (BLD) deserves more academic and pedagogical attention than it receives nowadays. This article gives an overview of the BLD within the framework of dictionary research, including dictionary history, dictionary typology, dictionary criticism and dictionary use. It first traces, with a special reference to the Chinese EFL context, the origin and historical development of this type of dictionary, and then proposes several approaches to its classification. The strengths and weaknesses of the BLD are evaluated and its role in language pedagogy discussed, followed by an extensive review of the empirical studies of BLD use. Finally, further areas of BLD research are also suggested. It is hoped that such an overview would kindle more research interest in BLDs which is relevant to language pedagogy, dictionary use instruction and lexicographic practices.Yuzhen ChenWoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WATarticlelexicographybilingualized dictionariesmonolingual dictionariesbilingual dictionariesoriginhistorical developmentdictionary typologydictionary criticismdictionary usechinese efl contextPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844Germanic languages. Scandinavian languagesPD1-7159AFDEENFRNLLexikos, Vol 22, Pp 139-158 (2012)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language AF
DE
EN
FR
NL
topic lexicography
bilingualized dictionaries
monolingual dictionaries
bilingual dictionaries
origin
historical development
dictionary typology
dictionary criticism
dictionary use
chinese efl context
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
PL1-8844
Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages
PD1-7159
spellingShingle lexicography
bilingualized dictionaries
monolingual dictionaries
bilingual dictionaries
origin
historical development
dictionary typology
dictionary criticism
dictionary use
chinese efl context
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
PL1-8844
Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages
PD1-7159
Yuzhen Chen
Bilingualized Dictionaries with Special Reference to the Chinese EFL Context
description As a type of dictionary with huge popularity among EFL learners in China, the bilingualized dictionary (BLD) deserves more academic and pedagogical attention than it receives nowadays. This article gives an overview of the BLD within the framework of dictionary research, including dictionary history, dictionary typology, dictionary criticism and dictionary use. It first traces, with a special reference to the Chinese EFL context, the origin and historical development of this type of dictionary, and then proposes several approaches to its classification. The strengths and weaknesses of the BLD are evaluated and its role in language pedagogy discussed, followed by an extensive review of the empirical studies of BLD use. Finally, further areas of BLD research are also suggested. It is hoped that such an overview would kindle more research interest in BLDs which is relevant to language pedagogy, dictionary use instruction and lexicographic practices.
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title Bilingualized Dictionaries with Special Reference to the Chinese EFL Context
title_short Bilingualized Dictionaries with Special Reference to the Chinese EFL Context
title_full Bilingualized Dictionaries with Special Reference to the Chinese EFL Context
title_fullStr Bilingualized Dictionaries with Special Reference to the Chinese EFL Context
title_full_unstemmed Bilingualized Dictionaries with Special Reference to the Chinese EFL Context
title_sort bilingualized dictionaries with special reference to the chinese efl context
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