A Comparative Study on Dictionary Uses in Literary and Expository Reading

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Title
A Comparative Study on Dictionary Uses in Literary and Expository Reading
Author
氏名 Nishihara Takayuki
ヨミ ニシハラ タカユキ
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This study is intended to examine differences of dictionary use between literary reading mode and expository reading mode in a foreign language. These two reading modes are defined based on a Transaction Model. This study, which examined 30 Japanese learners of English, yielded the following three points as main findings: (1) under a literary reading condition, they used a dictionary most to see whether known words had a different meaning that they did not know; (2) under an expository reading condition, they tended to use a dictionary for checking the meaning of new words and did not devote attention to the other meanings of known words; and (3) dictionaries were used for only limited purposes in both reading modes.

Journal Title
県立広島大学人間文化学部紀要
Volume
7
Spage
141
Epage
154
Published Date
2012-02
Publisher
県立広島大学
ISSN
2186-5590
NCID
AA12116573
Language
eng
NIIType
Departmental Bulletin Paper
Text Version
出版社版
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