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questions perspective Procedure
1.What are the -According to A.Methodology: The -The main objective of this
predominant Stein (2002), no subjects of the study are study is to explore the
Investigating notions associated account of described and so is the myriad aspects of the
Students' Attitudes with pedagogical dictionaries is allocation of sample size attitudes and perceptions of
towards Pedagogical dictionaries complete without as well as data monolingual
Dictionaries: among this noting the user, collection instrument pedagogical English
A Study of Sudanese population his needs, his and procedures. dictionaries by a
English Majors sample ? expectations, and 1.The Questionnaire: representative sample of
Dr. Nauman Al 2.How far do the his prejudices. This questionnaire Sudanese English majors.
Amin Ali Al Sayed, samples utilize Much of the inquires into students' To attain this goal, the
Dr. Ahmed Gumaa their pedagogical investigation on beliefs, views, study researchers have attempted
Siddiek dictionaries for lexicography has habits and knowledge to incorporate all the
(Corresponding general ,receptive focused on the concerning components research procedures,
author)) and productive suitability of of operations and theoretical
academic tasks? information found English learners' explorations that revolve
3.Of the in dictionary dictionaries. This 30- around the questions of the
numerous entry entries, so item questionnaire is study. The intention is, first,
components determining what an adaptation of to consolidate the view of
,which ones are information should Bejoints' (1981) monolingual English
the most and least be included in these famous study of dictionaries as a powerful
looked up by the works and French students' aid and natural concomitant
sample how this should be familiarity with English of any programme of
population ,and presented is very dictionaries, whose English language teaching,
how can this be important. The replication by numerous an area
explained? issue so far has other researchers that merits the attention of
4.What types of been how implies a high degree of students, teachers and
common dictionaries can reliability. This study syllabus designers.
difficulties do teach students also includes -In conclusion, the
these students rather than on how modifications from students are more
encounter while students can learn Battenburg's (1992) interested in denotational
using their from it. study of dictionary meaning, almost excluding
dictionaries? -Areas of interest habits of EFI students in other aspects like
include students' American colleges, as connotational meaning,
underlying motives well as aspects taken level of use and
and beliefs about from Hartmann's (2005) pronunciation techniques.
dictionaries, the more recent survey -Equally, there must be an
consulted aspects of dictionary use at inclusion of task-based
in Exeter University. The activities in General English
dictionary entries aim of this tool is to lessons to
and for what work out respondents' provide the learners with
language activities, attitudes, evaluation, the means to handle the
and the degree of and actual use of facets of monolingual
mastery in dictionary for the dictionaries such as
executing these sample population. definitions,
tasks and, indeed, 2.Subjects of the study: pronunciation and
their awareness of The subjects of this collocations.
the rich information study were taken from
their (monolingual) English majors
dictionaries studying in four
contain. Sudanese universities,
namely
University of
Khartoum, Al Neelein
University, Sudan
University of Science
and Technology, and
Omdurman Islamic
University during the
academic year 2012-
2013. In the former
two, the subjects were
selected from colleges
of Arts and in the latter
from the colleges of
Education. Following
the stratified random
sampling method to the
total candidate
population of the
English Departments in
the four universities as
provided by the
registrars of the
respective institutions;
160 students were
specifically chosen out
of the total population
of1496. All subjects
have received an
average of 8-10 years of
formal education in
English as a foreign
language, and they were
educated under the same
curriculum adopted in
Sudan, i.e. SPINE,
before they were
enrolled in university.
All subjects speak
Arabic as a mother or
second language. To
conclude, the selected
sample is homogeneous
in educational level,
linguistic background
and span of pre-
university instruction in
the English language.
B.Procedure:
An initial pilot study
was carried out on ten
students from The
Department of English
Faculty of Arts,
University
of Khartoum and
resulting in minor
modifications to ease the
terminology and to
provide
illustrativeexamples.
Subsequently, each
group of students
answering one test in
one university was
given the final
instrument in a
separate session. In the
beginning they were
given clear instructions
and with an example
showing how to fill in
the questionnaire. A
short text was attached
to each copy to explain
the objectives, and a
brief oral presentation
was provided to each
group on the subject of
dictionaries and their
major taxonomies as
well as the components
of an entry in a
monolingual English
dictionary. The
administration of
students' questionnaire
went smoothly in
all four universities,
with 160 copies
completed. The
researchers acted as the
main examiners with
another teacher
from the concerned
university as an
assistant.