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Title
The Effect of Monolingual, Bilingual, and Bilingualized, Dictionarieson Vocabulary Comprehension and Production
Presenter
Abbas Ali Zarei
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of monolingual, bilingual, and bilingualized dictionaries on vocabulary comprehension and production of Iranian EFL learners of English at different proficiency levels. A total number of 270 students at Tabriz Azad University in Iran (nine groups of 30 members each) participated in the study. Of the nine groups, three were elementary, three intermediate, and three advanced level learners. At each level of proficiency, all the three groups were taught the same words, but each group used a different kind of the above-mentioned dictionaries. At the end of the experimental period, all three groups (at each level) received two posttests, a multiple-choice test to check their vocabulary comprehension and a fill-in-the-blank test to check their vocabulary production. Six independent one-way 'Analysis of Variance' (ANOVA) procedures were run to compare the means of the groups on receptive and productive vocabulary tests.
Results indicated that different types of dictionaries are appropriate for vocabulary comprehension and production of learners at different levels of proficiency. While the elementary and intermediate level learners achieved the best results with the bilingualized dictionary, the advanced level learners performed better on both the receptive and productive tests when they used the bilingual dictionary. The findings of the present study can have implications for both teachers and learners of English as a foreign language.
Key words:- monolingual – bilingual – bilingualized dictionary – vocabulary comprehension – vocabulary production
Bio Profile:
Abbas Ali Zarei is a Ph.D holder in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from Isfahan University in Iran. He is currently a member of academic staff as well as the dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Imam Khomeini International University (IKIU) in Qazvin, Iran. His main area of interest is vocabulary learning and the factors influencing it. He has written and published 14 books and translated three others. He had also had seven articles published, mostly in the area of vocabulary learning.
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