Investigating Dictionary Users’ Needs for Illustrative Examples: the Case of Chinese EFL Learners.

Autores

  • Hai Xu Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/%25x

Resumo

This article aims to investigate dictionary users’ needs for illustrative examples. A questionnaire was administered to 367 Chinese EFL learners. It was found that Chinese EFL learners use illustrative examples mainly in production and sometimes in reception. More than 60% of the subjects favor sentence examples over phrasal ones. According to them, the priority of exemplification should be given to verbs, phrasal verbs, polysemous words, ambiguous words and unmarked high-frequency vocabulary. Some of them made some valuable suggestions, such as control of unfamiliar words in illustrative examples and exemplification of derivatives. The findings in the questionnaire survey cast light on users’ needs for examples, and serve as reference for lexicographers.

Biografia do Autor

Hai Xu, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

É professor associado de inglês no Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics na Universidade de Guangdong (GDUFS) na China. Ele fez doutorado em Lingüística na mesma universidade. Ele foi pesquisador visitane CCSEP no Strathy Language Unit no Departmento de Inglês na Universidade Queen’s no Canadá.

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Publicado

30-04-2006

Como Citar

Xu, H. (2006). Investigating Dictionary Users’ Needs for Illustrative Examples: the Case of Chinese EFL Learners. Cadernos De Tradução, 2(18), 153–174. https://doi.org/10.5007/%x