Abstract
This report aims to describe the development of a new, original, and monolingual dictionary as an educational resource named the Real-life-based School Dictionary (RLBSD). There is a general lack of corpus-based school dictionaries in the Turkish context. The existing dictionaries are based on native speaker intuitions and are far from being empirical, indicating the need for the development of a corpus-based dictionary. In this respect, the RLBSD meets this critical need. A specialized corpus consisting of texts from a range of natural language environments such as coursebooks (from primary to high school) approved by the Ministry of Education (MoNE), children's literature books, and periodicals was compiled and forms the basis of the RLBSD. The dictionary has been designed with the use of information technologies and corpus linguistics methods and is accessible to users on all digital platforms (the Internet, smart board, tablet, smartphone) as an instructional tool. It is believed that the current study may serve as an exemplary work with its methods and outputs for Turkish lexicography studies.
Highlights
The terms school dictionary, children's dictionary, and college dictionary in lexicographic literature all refer to "a type of dictionary written for school-age children" (Hartmann and James 1998: 122) and have certain common characteristics
One of the current study's objectives is to evaluate the effectiveness of a school dictionary that will be developed based on the methods and principles of corpus linguistics and lexicography
Experimental and control groups were formed from the existing groups/classes by using a reading comprehension test to compare the two groups regarding the effects of the Real-life-based School Dictionary (RLBSD)
Summary
The terms school dictionary, children's dictionary, and college dictionary in lexicographic literature all refer to "a type of dictionary written for school-age children" (Hartmann and James 1998: 122) and have certain common characteristics. They contain a controlled vocabulary with a simple design often supported with visuals. The determination of the dictionary's target users is crucial (Jackson 2002) Various field studies such as surveys, observa tions, or expert opinions are applied to determine the target users of a dictionary (Atkins and Rundell 2008: 30). The target users, their age range, level of education, and intended purpose of the dictionary have profound effects on the whole structure of a dictionary
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