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Harvey, Keith; Yuill, Deborah – Applied Linguistics, 1997
Presents an account of a study of the role played by a dictionary in the completion of written (encoding) tasks by students of English as a foreign language. The study uses an introspective methodology based on the completion of flowcharts. Results indicate the importance of information on spelling and meanings and the neglect of coded syntactic…
Descriptors: College Students, Consonants, Dictionaries, English (Second Language)