Patterns of Misinterpretation in the Productive Use of EFL Dictionary Definitions.

Nesi, Hilary; Meara, P.

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ERIC Number: EJ483593

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Publication Date: 1994

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Patterns of Misinterpretation in the Productive Use of EFL Dictionary Definitions.

Nesi, Hilary; Meara, P.

System, v22 n1 p1-15 Feb 1994

The corpus of errors produced by nonnative adult speakers of English support Miller and Gildea's (1987) KIDRULE strategy. Some dictionary users latched onto a part of the definition without understanding how it relates to the word they looked up. Other errors were the result of misleading dictionary entries. (Contains 11 references.) (Author)

Descriptors: Adult Learning, Cognitive Processes, Definitions, Dictionaries, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Users (Information)

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Language: English

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