StrategiesandSkillsUsingDictionryinEnglishStudy英语学习中词典使用的策略和技能.doc

英语学习中词典使用的策略和技能 摘要：?关键词：Abstract：English dictionaries indispensable tools for students to learn English, and the using strategies and skills for language learning are of vital importance in second language acquisition. Through a questionnaire, this paper investigates part of Huizhou University English students’ using strategies and skills. Gaining a result by using a simple counting, the research makes a pertinent analysis with effective data. We are looking forward to the survey will help improve college 　students’ skills and strategies of English dictionary using. Key Words: English dictionaries； Strategies； Skills 　 1. Introduction An English dictionary, as a tool or a reference in the English learning, helps to facilitate the language learning process and enables the learners to develop their 　language skills effectively. The effective and efficient use of a dictionary is one of the main factors to affect the second-language acquisition. In the learning process, besides our teachers, what we most consult is an English dictionary. It provides English learners all types of information: spelling, syllables, weak and strong forms, syntactic structures, word origins, meaning, word collocation, formal and informal usages, slangs and idioms, etc. Therefore, its importance is self-evident. However, if you use it in an inappropriate way, the second best teachers not only could not help you, but also might even bring a lot of negative effects to you. For example, some learners just read the first several Chinese meanings and usages of the word, which would negatively expand or narrow their understanding of original 　meanings; some learners depend too much on their dictionaries. Once they fail to know the meanings of the new words, they always look them up rather than guess them out. Such low skills and strategies do not bring any convenience but waste them much time on looking up the dictionaries. Though these learners have one or two paper-based dictionaries at leas