Using bilingual dictionaries
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Thompson, G.
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Article
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1987
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Oxford University Press
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English
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Monolingual dictionaries for foreign-language learners tend to be unquestioningly regarded as better than bilingual dictionaries. In this article, I discuss whether this is in fact true. Monolingual dictionaries have serious disadvantages in many language-teaching situations: in particular, learners