Titel:	Students' knowledge of pocket electronic dictionaries: recommendations for the students
Personen:	Boonmoh, Atipat
Jahr:	2011
Typ:	Aufsatz
Verlag:	The Asian Association for Lexicography
Ortsangabe:	Kyoto
In:	Akasu, Kaoru/Uchida, Satoru (Hgg.): Lexicography: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives. Proceedings of the Seventh ASIALEX Biennial International Conference 2011. Kyoto Terrsa, Kyoto, Japan, 22 - 24 August 2011
Seiten:	66-75
Untersuchte Sprachen:	Englisch*English
Schlagwörter:	Benutzungsforschungusage research Didaktische Nutzungeducational purposes elektronisches Taschenwörterbuchpocket electronic dictionary Fremdspracherwerbforeign/second language acquisition
Abstract:	Pocket electronic dictionaries (PEDs) are common in many South and East Asian classrooms. Students tend to use PEDs probably because of their ease of use, compact size and the advance of technology. Users of electronic dictionaries, however, require different skills than those users of dictionaries in book form and that student users need to be taught explicitly how to use them. I order for the teachers to provide advice for their students and to teach e-dictionary skills, the teachers need to know what contain in PEDs, and how much the students know about their own PEDs. This paper examines some PEDs in current use in Thailand and presents the questionnaire findings regarding students' use and knowledge of their own PEDs. The participants were 540 first-year university students in Thailand during an English preparation course in the academic session 2010-11. The findings indicated that although many students owned and used PEDs, the students were under-informed about their PEDs' contents and capabilities. On the basis of this study, recommendations, which can be applicable to other contexts, for buying PEDs and for teaching PED skills are proposed.