The Place of Dictionaries In English as'a Foreign Language

Abstract

The various kinds of much-needed linguistic
information the dictionary contains have been
shown. Yet this linguistic wealth seems to be
largely untapped.
According to a study by Amanual (1991) the
dictionary's richness, notwithstanding, many
students do not have a correct understanding of
its various resources, and hence do not use to the full. More than half of the subjects in his
study reported to have or own a dictionary. but
they are not serious users. Thus summers'
(1988) statement that dictionaries have been
disregarded as a wealth of books on grammar
by linguists and language teachers seems true
also true of the Ethiopian college context