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- Title
On the Presentation and Placement of Collocations in Monolingual English Learners’ Dictionaries: Insights into Encoding and Retention.
- Authors
Dziemianko, Anna
- Abstract
The paper reports on an empirical investigation in which the effect of lexicographic presentation and positioning of collocations on encoding and retention was analysed. Two places of collocations in entries (entry-initial and entry-final) in three presentation conditions (box, bold before examples, bold within examples) were taken into consideration. The experiment centred on verb + noun collocations and was conducted among a large group of non-native speakers of English at the intermediate level. The results show that the presentation and place of collocations significantly affected their use. Remembering collocations, in turn, proved to be conditioned by the adopted mode of presentation, but not by their distribution in the entry. The paper ends with suggestions for optimizing the presentation of collocations depending on their position in the microstructure. The investigation does not prove the usefulness of collocation boxes.
- Subjects
MONOLINGUALISM; ENGLISH language education; ENGLISH language dictionaries; EMPIRICAL research; COLLOCATION (Linguistics)
- Publication
International Journal of Lexicography, 2014, Vol 27, Issue 3, p259
- ISSN
0950-3846
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ijl/ecu012