Investigating the teachers' and students' attitudes about the role of billingual/ monolingual dictionaries in the correct acquisition of english words
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2015
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university of Oum-El-Bouaghi
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The basic aim of this dissertation is to investigate the teachers' and students' attitudes concerning the role of bilingual and monolingual dictionaries in the correct acquisition of english words. It is based on two questionnaires and a Dictionary Effectiveness. Test as methods that were assigned for students and teachers in Larbi Ben M'Hidi university in Oum-El-Bouaghi. The questionnaires' findings underline that both teachers and students prefer using the monolingual dictionary. Practically, the DET results underline the effectiveness of the bilingual dictionary in different types of lexical tasks. The main conclusion to be drawn from this work is that both bilingual and monolingual dictionaries are effective in the correct acquisition of english words. In some cases the bilingual dictionary does what the monolingual dictionary cannot do depending on the lexical task beforehand and vice versa.
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Students' attitudes, Acquisition : english words, Students : teachers