School of Languages and Area Studies (SLAS)
SLASLEX guides
The following SLASLEX guides are available to download:
| The SLAS LEX Guide to Vocabulary Learning - Ian Kemble |
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Description:
The SLAS LEX (Vocabulary Learning and Development) project was launched at a meeting of the
SLAS Language and Linguistics section in November, 2001. The aim of the project is to raise
awareness of vocabulary learning among undergraduate students of foreign languages and
thereby to improve vocabulary learning. The project has adopted a bottom-up approach - the
project does not proceed from research findings into vocabulary learning but instead seeks to
understand what students do, and teachers say, about vocabulary learning and to build on the
information that emerges from this dialogue.
File size: 129Kb
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| The SLAS LEX Guide to Using the Dictionary Effectively - Ian Kemble |
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Description:
Dictionaries come in a number of shapes and sizes and all have their particular uses. In the following,
the focus is mainly, but by no means exclusively, on the large modern bilingual dictionary. The
School of Languages and Area Studies recommends the Collins Dictionary (French, German, Italian,
Spanish) which has appeared since the late Nineties and which makes extensive use of computer
corpora, see below. Although the dictionary is the essential tool of the linguist, very little is known
about how, and in particular how well, it is used by students. There is evidence, however, of an
interface between vocabulary learning and dictionary use. In their article Reading, Dictionaries,
and Vocabulary Learning, Luppescu and Day1 show that students who used a dictionary scored
significantly better on a vocabulary test than students who did not use a dictionary.
File size: 64Kb
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