Some interesting/applicable results I read about dictionaries lately: - dictionary can sometimes cause rather than prevent lexical errors. (Ard, J. (1982). The

Some interesting/applicable results I read about dictionaries lately: - dictionary can sometimes cause rather than prevent lexical errors. (Ard, J. (1982). The use of bilingual dictionaries by EFL students while writing. ITL Review of Applied Linguistics 58, 1–27.) - user tends to select the first meaning they encounter (Nesi, H. & R. Haill (2002). A study of dictionary use by international students at a British university. International Journal of Lexicography 15.4, 277–306.) - bilingual dictionaries are more useful to lower-proficiency users, monolingual is better to advanced users (Lew, R. (2004). Which dictionary for whom? Receptive use of bilingual, monolingual and semi-bilingual dictionaries by Polish learners of English. Poznan: Motivex.) - different people have different lookup preferences and that the use of multiple dictionary information seems to reinforce retention (Laufer, B., & Hill, M. (2000). What Lexical Information Do L2 Learners Select in a CALL Dictionary and How Does It Affect Word Retention? Research Report.) Interesting meta-study: Nesi, H. (2014). Dictionary use by English language learners. Language Teaching, 47(1), 38-55.