Recherchepraxis bei der Verbesserung von Interferenzfehlern aus dem Italienischen, Portugiesischen und Spanischen: Eine explorative Beobachtungsstudie mit DaF-Lernenden

Abstract

In the past two decades, more and more dictionary usage studies have been published, but most of them deal with the question what users appreciate about dictionaries, which dictionaries they use and which information they need in specific situations. These studies presuppose that users indeed consult lexicographic resources. However, language teachers and lecturers of linguistics often have the impression that students use too few high-quality dictionaries in their every-day work. Against this background, we started an international cooperation project to collect empirical data evaluating that impression. Our aim was to evaluate what students (here from the Romance language area) actually do when they correct language problems. We used a new methodological setting to do this (screen recording with a thinking-aloud task). The empirical data we gained offers a broad insight into what language users really do when solving language-related tasks today.

The Definition, Presentation and Automatic Generation of Contextual Data in Lexicography

“…In the field of language learning the semantic-conceptual organization of the vocabulary in Combinatoria or the formal access in Xera and CombiContext, as well as the variety of examples enable a way to systematically acquire the combinatory potential of a word and to avoid errors, which are common amongst learners in a production situation (cf. Nied 2014;Müller-Spitzer et al 2018;Gao and Liu 2020). This cannot be underestimated for developing future studies on the local context.…”

“…As shown in Figure 9, the article provides the meaning Besides the importance of providing detailed information in the dictionary from a quality standpoint, the users in-actu demand this information (cf. Müller-Spitzer et al 2018;Dominguez et al 2014). Müller-Spitzer et al (2018) also demonstrate that users choose the tool according to the number of units they intend to consult: they prefer the dictionary for simple queries (a lexeme), whereas for more complex queries (collocations, phrases and even sentences) they choose machine translation programs, which work much better, if more context is available.…”

“…Müller-Spitzer et al 2018;Dominguez et al 2014). Müller-Spitzer et al (2018) also demonstrate that users choose the tool according to the number of units they intend to consult: they prefer the dictionary for simple queries (a lexeme), whereas for more complex queries (collocations, phrases and even sentences) they choose machine translation programs, which work much better, if more context is available. This indicates that the dictionaries are not meeting their needs when embarking on complex queries.…”

Automatic generation of nominal phrases for Portuguese and Galician

“…f Available at http://portlex.usc.gal/combinatoria/usuario. g The availability of resources for describing valency and argument combinatory possibilities is especially important since various studies conclude that this is one of the fields in which foreign language students make many errors in production (Nied Curcio 2014;Gao and Liu 2020;Müller-Spitzer et al, 2018).…”