The Bilingual Dictionary and Foreign Language Learning: Facts and Opinions
- Alcaraz Mármol, Gema
- Almela Sánchez-Lafuente, Ángela
ISSN: 1697-7467
Year of publication: 2013
Issue: 20
Pages: 89-101
Type: Article
More publications in: Porta Linguarum: revista internacional de didáctica de las lenguas extranjeras
Abstract
Despite the eminently communicative approaches to FL, learners still feel the need to have almost immediate access to the meaning or form of foreign words. With this premise in mind, we have conducted the present study on the bilingual dictionary, being our goal twofold. Firstly, we compare the task where the dictionary is required with other three tasks where it is not used. Then, the results of the dictionary task are compared to the participants� opinion about the dictionary. Results suggest that the use of the dictionary is not as efficient as expected. Yet, a positive attitude towards this tool prevails among the best performers
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