英语学习中词典使用的策略和技能 摘要：英文词典是学生学习英语必备的工具，词典使用的策略和技能在二外习得中显得尤为重要。本研究通过调查问卷，对部分惠州学院英语专业学生求助词典时运用的策略和技能进行了调查。通过简单算术得来结果后，研究者利用这些有效的数据进行有针对性地分析。我们期待调查结果能有助提高大学生的词典使用技能和策略。关键词： 词典；策略；技能 Strategies and Skills: Using Dictionary in English Study Abstract：English dictionaries are the indispensable tools for students to learn English, and the using strategies and skills for language learning are of vital importance in second language acquisition. Through a questionnaire, this paper investigates part of Huizhou University English students using strategies and skills. Gaining a result by using a simple counting, the research makes a pertinent analysis with effective data. We are looking forward to the survey will help improve college students skills and strategies of English dictionary using. Key Words: English dictionaries； Strategies； Skills 1. IntroductionAn English dictionary, as a tool or a reference in the English learning, helps to facilitate the language learning process and enables the learners to develop their language skills effectively. The effective and efficient use of a dictionary is one of the main factors to affect the second-language acquisition. In the learning process, besides our teachers, what we most consult is an English dictionary. It provides English learners all types of information: spelling, syllables, weak and strong forms, syntactic structures, word origins, meaning, word collocation, formal and informal usages, slangs and idioms, etc. Therefore, its importance is self-evident.However, if you use it in an inappropriate way, the second best teachers not only could not help you, but also might even bring a lot of negative effects to you. For example, some learners just read the first several Chinese meanings and usages of the word, which would negatively expand or narrow their understanding of original meanings; some learners depend too much on their dictionaries. Once they fail to know the meanings of the new words, they always look them up rather than guess them out. Such low skills and strategies do not bring any convenience but waste them much time on looking up the dictionaries. Though these learners have one or two paper-based dictionaries at least, they are forced to buy electronic dictionaries in addition, because they claim electronic dictionaries provide word meaning quicker.Dictionaries are among the most readily available, widely used, and cheapest learning resources, but they are also among the most difficult to use. 1 The research of dictionary use, as a branch of lexicography, is concerned with more and more language experts. A great number of categories of specific areas within this branch have been studied. The study of dictionary use in EFL (English as a foreign language) learning is one of the important areas of the research. 2There are several problems we need to solve: What strategies and skills they applied to handle the new words and usages in reading and listening? How do the learners succeed in choosing their suitable dictionaries in accordance with their own levels and needs? How often they use the dictionary?Do the language teachers give the students enough information and guidance in the selection and use of English dictionary? Are the current English majors clear about the three different English dictionaries functions？In light of these questions, we make a researchon two English majors classes in Huizhou University.2. Literature ReviewIn the combination of questionnaire and interviews of four Normal English classes, 405 students, in the Foreign Languages department of Putian College, Chen Yuzhen finds that the using frequency of electronic dictionary is much higher than that of paper-based dictionary, and junior students using times are more than senior students. So, she proves that junior students look-up strategies are more mature than senior students, and conclude that student strategies and skills will not increase with the second language learning time. Also, she proposes that the teachers should have the sense to train their students the awareness of using dictionaries, and to provide necessary guidance and enough training. They should encourage students study more independently, and boost their independent problem-solving abilities. 3 With the questionnaire of two non-English majors classes, 90 students, in the Chemical Technology department of Southwestern University, Feng Linling finds out electronic dictionary has already become many non-English majors most extensive tool in language learning, because it is very efficient to find out the meanings of the new words. But when to mention electronic dictionarys pronunciation function, only a handful of people believe that it is very helpful, and the overwhelming majority of people believe that the functions are somewhat important or unimportant. By comparison, t