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Nesi, Hilary; Meara, P. – System, 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