Abstract
The usefulness of different types of articles in learner's dictionaries. Review of Ursula Wingate: The effectiveness of Different Learners Dictionaries. An investigation into the Use of Dictionaries for Reading Comprehension by Intermediate Learners of German. Tübingen 2002
Highlights
Ursula Wingate’s book The Effectiveness of Different Learner Dictionaries: An Investigation into the Use of Dictionaries for Reading Comprehension by Intermediate Learners of German is the result of a research work conducted by the author within the framework of a thesis concerned with the following main questions:
The starting point for the thesis is both interesting and highly peculiar: It has been observed that Chinese students of German in Hong Kong have a strong preference for bilingual German-English dictionaries instead of – as it might be supposed – bilingual German-Chinese dictionaries or monolingual German learner’s dictionaries
It goes without saying that it constitutes a real problem that has to be solved by lexicography and that there might be other languages with similar problems
Summary
Ursula Wingate’s book The Effectiveness of Different Learner Dictionaries: An Investigation into the Use of Dictionaries for Reading Comprehension by Intermediate Learners of German is the result of a research work conducted by the author within the framework of a thesis concerned with the following main questions:. The book consists of two main parts: In the first part, the author wants to establish a) whether the above observation is typical for Chinese foreign-language students, b) whether the German-English dictionary is really as effective as perceived by the students, and c) whether the monolingual German learner’s dictionary is really so difficult as the students assume or whether their judgement is rather based on prejudices. The author makes a comparison between a “traditional” definition – based on the principles of genus proximum and differentia specifica – and a so-called “new definition” – especially developed on the basis of the philosophy of the natural-language definitions of the Collins Cobuild English Dictionary for Advanced Learners – and proceeds to determine which features make the definition more effective for the intermediate learners of German
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