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CHAPTER II REVIEW RELATED LITEATURE
This chapter focuses on review of related theories and literatures of the student’s problems in using English monolingual dictionary in learning process,
which is focus on thestudents’ problems followed by definition of dictionary,
students capability and student experiences in using monolingual dictionary. Each of those will be discussed more in this following section.
A. Dictionary
1. Definition of Dictionary
Dictionary is a book that has many words collection it is used to give in one or more specific languages, that listed systematically according
alphabet that used to give of information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, translation, and other information.
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Another definition said that the word “dictionary” came from word Dictionnairiques that mean some
expected activities to present the data presentation by selecting the valuable examples, and deciding on abbrevations to be used to convey information
about certain descriptive results.
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Most of the students use their dictionary to get information about the meaning of words that they do not understand about
the target language.
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Websters New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition, 2002.
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Heid, Ulrich, 1986 The Presentation of Collocations in Monolingual Dictionaries .” Universität
Stuttgart, bistitut ür maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung Azenbergstr. Stuttgartmheidims.uni- stuttgart.com, D. 70174,12.
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In this activity dictionary has an important role to help students to get the meaning of target language and make them understand well about the
word. 2.
Types of Dictionary Many types of dictionary uses to help people in understanding
vocabulary in this occasion, Pilchard has classified dictionary in three kinds they are: monolingual, bilingual, and bilingualized.
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Besides, Li and Zhou have also classified kind of dictionary in term of language involved they are
monolingual and bilingual dictionary.
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Based on those theories, the researcher agreed to both of them. Depend on function of dictionary, which aims to show
the differences between target language and meaning easily. Besides, in along of this research mostly students were using bilingual and monolingual to help
them in language learning especially learning English. By those considerations, the researcher agreed that kinds of dictionary are monolingual
and bilingual dictionary.
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Based on Prichad 2008 Evaluating L2 Reader Vocabulary Strategies and Dictionary Use Reading in a Foreign Language Quoted By Khumrotun Amelia, Siti. Thesis Undergraduate degree:
“Bilingual Dictionary Use in Getting the Meaning of Phrasal Verb in Reading English Text For 4
th
Semester Student of Teacher English Education Department at Uin Sunan- Ampel Surabaya ”
Surabaya: library of UIN Sunan Ampel, 2014, 5.
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Based on Li , Zhou2001 , an Introducing to Bilingual Shanghai : Shanghai Foreign Language Education
”, quoted by Li, L., Lou, X. 2012. a Survey on English Majors’ Dynamic Trends of Dictionaries Using. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics. 22, 83.
