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ERIC Number: EJ377659
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1988
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ISSN: ISSN-0039-8322
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Trying Out a New Dictionary.
Benson, Morton; Benson, Evelyn
TESOL Quarterly, v22 n2 p340-45 Jun 1988
Describes the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English and demonstrates its usefulness for advanced learners of English by administering a monolingual completion test, first without a dictionary and then with the BBI, to Hungarian and Russian English teachers. Both groups' scores improved dramatically on the posttest. (LMO)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Advanced Students, Dictionaries, English (Second Language), Idioms, Language Teachers, Lexicography, North American English, Second Language Learning, Standard Spoken Usage
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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