Dictionary Use in Foreign Language Writing Exams: Impact and implications (Language Learning & Language Teaching)

Dictionary Use in Foreign Language Writing Exams......Page 2
Editorial page\n......Page 3
Title page\n......Page 4
LCC data\n......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
List of key acronyms......Page 14
1. What is the problem with dictionaries?......Page 16
2. On dictionaries and writing......Page 28
3. Does the dictionary really make a difference?......Page 52
4. How do test takers use dictionaries?......Page 80
5. When the dictionary becomes a liability......Page 110
6. What do the test takers think  of having a dictionary?......Page 140
7. Some more test taker perspectives......Page 162
8. Having a dictionary in writing exams -  is it useful and is it fair?......Page 184
9. Maximizing the opportunity and minimizing the liability......Page 202
References......Page 218
Appendix 1: A note on intermediate level students......Page 226
Appendix 2. A note on data and procedures  to establish reliability......Page 228
Appendix 3: The writing tasks used in the first two studies......Page 232
Appendix 4: A note on inferential statistics......Page 236
Index......Page 242
The series Language Learning & Language Teaching......Page 244