An Exploration into the Use of Pedagogic Monolingual Drctionaries at High School Level (WITH Special Reference to Grade 11 Students
| dc.contributor.advisor | Demisse, Teshome (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | G.Kldan, Fikre | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-11T06:44:26Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-09T04:06:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-11T06:44:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-09T04:06:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study is aimed at finding out the views and attitudes of hi gh school students in genera l, and grade II students in particular, toward the use ofMLD as one independent and se lfstudy source of lingui stic information in the process of learning EFL. In other words, it tries to explore and describe the various uses ofMLD and see how much of these pieces of pedagogic information is recognized and exploited by grade II students. In short, the study tries to answer the question, "To what extent do high school students benefit from the MLD." To do thi s, three types of instruments were employed: A test of practical use<"of a dictionary, questionnaires and an observation. A class of30 randomly se lected students and 20 English teachers from 6 different schools were also invovled in the study. The test whi ch comprises 30 items on the various uses of the dictionary was administered to the 30 students. The questionnaires which al so try to elicit views and opinions of the teachers and students regard ing the role of MLD in learnning EFL were distri buted to both subjects. The third type of instrument-observation, was made to see how quick or slow the students were in finding a word in the dictionary. In doing the test and the activity (task) for observation, the students were provided with the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English. The instruments were collected and analysed by converting the responses into percentag figures. Comparisons were made between the responses of the students to all item s subsumed in the instruments to see the effectiveness of the studen ts in usi ng the dicitonary. The results obtained showed that the students are not generally good at using the dicti onary for wide range of in formation. The results also indicated that there are no initiatives from Engli sh teachers to coach students how to make an effective use of the MLD. It is, therefore, recommended that teachers, syllabus designers and material writers shou ld take remedial measure to broaden the view of students to the use of MLD by integrating different tasks that call for dictionary skills. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/7804 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Pedagogic Monolingual | en_US |
| dc.title | An Exploration into the Use of Pedagogic Monolingual Drctionaries at High School Level (WITH Special Reference to Grade 11 Students | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |