再探英语专业本科生的词典使用

On the English Majors’ Use of Dictionaries

通过一份调查问卷,文章考察了我国一所高校英语专业二年级本科生词典运用习惯、态度以及课内外阅读与写作不同词典的使用情况,结果发现,大部分学生经常使用词典,从词典载体和语言种类看,学生在课内外阅读和写作中所用词典类别都有显著意义的差别:阅读时比写作时用词典多,课外比课内多;电脑/在线词典多在课外用,掌上电子词典则课内用得多;大部分学生习惯用双解词典,少用英英词典。

Through a questionnaire survey, this study examines the use of dictionaries by the second-year English majors in a Chinese university. The results reveal that most students often make use of dictionaries in their studies and that they use different dictionaries during the in-/outside-class reading and writing activities. Specifically, they use dictionaries more often in reading than in writing, more often out of class than in class; they tend to make more use of computer/online dictionaries outside class while they make more use of pocket electronic dictionaries inside class; and most of them frequently use bilingual dictionaries with both English and Chinese explanations but seldom use monolingual English dictionaries.