أسهمت التقنية الحاسوبية في تطوير صناعة المعاجم و لاسيما الآلية منها، و تجلى ذلك بظهور معاجم محمولة تفاعلية لا يتعدى حجمها حجم كف اليد، و أخرى موضوعة على أقراص مدمجة تعمل على الحاسب الشخصي. و إلى يومنا هذا لم ينل موضوع استخدام هذه المعاجم من قبل متعلمي الانجليزية اهتماماً واسعاً من الباحثين، و ذلك لإماطة اللثام عن الطريقة التي يتعامل بها مستخدمو المعاجم مع هذه الوسائل المرجعية. لذا تأتي هذه الدراسة لتلبي الحاجة لمعرفة المزيد عن أنواع المعاجم التي يستخدمها متعلمو الانجليزية و المعلومات التي يبحثون عنها و الطرق و العادات التي يتبعونها للحصول على المعلومة، و ما إن كانت تعترضهم بعض الصعوبات في العثور على ما يبغون، و كذلك معرفة الأسباب التي دفعتهم لشراء تلك المعاجم و استطلاع آرائهم فيها.
Modern educational and computer technology has greatly affected the
design of electronic dictionaries. Various types and sizes have been
produced ranging from hand-held devices to multimedia dictionaries on
CD-ROMs. Unfortunately, little literature exists on their efficacy and the
way these are used; therefore, there is now a pressing need for uncovering
the way EFL learners use these tools.
This dictionary user profile, survey questionnaire, was constructed to
fulfill this need and unearth the electronic dictionary-using habits of Arab
EFL learners and underline the various facts about the names of the
electronic dictionaries they owned, the reasons when, where, why and
how dictionary users employed these dictionaries and whether there was
any particular information they used more often. Endeavour was made to
pinpoint any difficulties in using any category of information and reveal
participants’ look-up habits and attitudes towards dictionaries.
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